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“Music is a form of prayer.”
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“Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.”
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“Plan for the worst, expect the best.”
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“Healthy relationships should always begin at the spiritual and intellectual levels - the levels of purpose, motivation, interests, dreams,and personality.”
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“The dog [in Pavlov's experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system. An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.”
Source : John Lukacs (1970). “The Passing of the Modern Age”
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“It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.”
Source : Lady Gregory (1919). “The Kiltartan Poetry Book”, p.16, Library of Alexandria
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“Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.”
Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1879). “Lectures and Essays by William Kingdon Clifford”
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“I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.”
Source : "Hot Topic: Keegan Allen" by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. December 27, 2012.