"The music of this opera (Madame Butterfly) was dictated to me by God. I was merely instrumental in getting it on paper and communicating it to the public."

-- Giacomo Puccini

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“[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.”
“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.”
“Sometimes you can have a great scene but it just doesn't need to be in the movie. If it's not progressing the plot, not progressing the story, not adding to the momentum, or if it's not purposefully serving a breath - it has got to go.”

Source : "Exclusive: Marvel’s Kevin Feige Talks THOR, AVENGERS, ANT-MAN, DOCTOR STRANGE, Animated Movies, Reveals What’s in Odin’s Vault". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 1, 2011.
“I am as vast as God; there is nothing in the world O Miracle: that can shut me up in myself.”
“Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.”
“Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.”
“An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.”

Source : Freya Stark (2013). “Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel”, p.45, Tauris Parke Paperbacks
“For the Spartans, it wasnâ€™t walls or magnificent public buildings that made a city; it was their own ideals. In essence, Sparta was a city of the head and the heart. And it existed in its purest form in the disciplined march of a hoplite phalanx on their way to war!”

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