"If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it."

-- Johan Huizinga

#Culture Quotes

“While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time.”
“Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.”
“Words were dangerous when loosed. They were more powerful than cannon and more unpredictable than storms. They could turn menâ€™s heads inside out and warp their destinies. They could pick up kingdoms and shake them until they rattled.”

Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.433, Pan Macmillan
“In one era the majority puts its faith and sympathy with the bullfighter, in another with the bull.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“To believe in explanations is good, because it means you may believe also that beneath the chaotic, mindless jumble of everything, beneath the horrible disjunction you feel at every moment between you and all you are not, there dwells in the universe a secret harmony, a coherence and rightness like a balanced equation that’s out of reach for now but some day will reveal itself in its entirety.”
“Maybe my caveman ancestors invented the wheel or something. I'm not sure.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.122
“The advantages of a uniform statistical nomenclature, however im- perfect, are so obvious, that it is surprising no attention has been paid to its enforcement in bills of mortality. Each disease has in many instances been denoted by three or four terms, and each term has been applied to as many different diseases ; vague, inconvenient names have been employed, or complications have been registered, instead of primary diseases. The nomenclature is of as much importance in this depart- ment of inquiry as weights and measures in the physical sciences, and should be settled without delay.”

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