"To estimate the value of Newton's discoveries, or the delight communicated by Shakespeare and Milton, by the price at which their works have sold, would be but a poor measure of the degree in which they have elevated and enchanted their country; nor would it be less grovelling and incongruous to estimate the benefit which the country has derived from the Revolution of 1688, by the pay of the soldiers, and all other payments concerned in effecting it."

-- Thomas Malthus

#Country Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“You have a gift that can make you rich. Everyone does.”
“Limitation is the condition of our lives. What matters â€” what allows us to reach beyond ourselves, as we are, and push at the boundaries of our ability â€” is that we continue. But then everything depends on how we practice, what we practice.”

Source : Glenn Kurtz (2008). “Practicing: A Musician's Return to Music”, p.241, Vintage
“We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.”

Source : "Tea Party Victory Shakes Up New York Politics". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. September 22, 2010.
“besides the comfort of knowlege, every science is auxiliary to every other.”
“For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.”
“Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.”
“I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.”
“I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write a song about. I will just start writing everything that I can think of while trying to write some things that are kind of poetic or sound like they could be in a song. Then, after the music is written, I go back and look at my subjects to see which one I think woud go with what music. Then, I formulate it into a melody and get the song.”

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