"To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense"

-- Charles Churchill

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“Beauty, like all other qualities presented to human experience, is relative; and the definition of it becomes unmeaning and useless in proportion to its abstractness. To define beauty not in the most abstract, but in the most concrete terms possible, not to find a universal formula for it, but the formula which expresses most adequately this or that special manifestation of it, is the aim of the true student of aesthetics.”

Source : Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“I mean, we were hearing music all the way through the islands. You know, we, when we visit the islands, of course since the islands have been churches have come down, there's a church every two blocks. And so there's music in all these different denominations. So we said, music's gotta play a big part of this movie [Maona] to really capture the culture.”

Source : Source: www.slashfilm.com
“I urge people to get in touch with how you really feel, and don't lie to yourself. Absolutely don't. You may not necessarily be able to change something right now, but you need to know how you really feel.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world.”
“For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise.”
“Oh, to be seventy again!”

Source : "Ego 3". Book by James Agate, 1938.
“A return to the NCAA is the expectation... I think that's a good pressure. I'd rather that pressure to the other way. ... I like a little pressure on me.”
“Global inequality is such an abstract concept, simply because there is no global government. Telling people in rich countries who have had no increase in real incomes, stagnant median wages and so on, that on the other hand global inequality is going down because people who are much poorer than them are getting richer - it's something that maybe they would like in an abstract sense, because everyone is happy there are fewer poor Chinese, but you may not be as happy if these Chinese are taking your job.”

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