"The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation."

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Source : Ralph Vaughan Williams (1987). “National Music: And Other Essays”, Oxford University Press, USA

Ralph Vaughan Williams

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“Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother.”

Source : Jean Kerr (1982). “Lunch hour”, Doubleday
“When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.”

Source : Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”
“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.”
“Greed: A word commonly used by liberals, low achievers, anti-capitalists and society's losers to denigrate, shame and discredit those who have acquired superior job skills and decision-making capabilities and who, through the application of those, a job.”

Source : Attributed to Neal Boortz in "Quotes, Jokes & Anecdotes", edited by Gerard O'Boyle, 2012.
“If you have no enemies, you have no character.”
“I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry”

Source : Norman Wisdom, William Hall (1992). “Don't laugh at me: an autobiography”, Vintage
“Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear ********* weapons.”
“I was interested in working on a show that was driven by women.”

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