"Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture."

-- Riccardo Muti

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“Immigrants provide skills that we simply cannot afford to do without. They have contributed hugely to Britain's success.”
“Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.”
“But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now, I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.”

Source : Tove Jansson (2014). “Comet in Moominland: Can Moomintroll save his beloved valley?”, p.51, Macmillan
“You're in my heart, you're in my soul. You'll be my breath, should I grow old.”

Source : Song: You're In My Heart
“One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could stare at the stars for hours, their infinite number and depth pulling me into a part of myself that I ignored during the day.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.37, Scholastic Inc.
“To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No one can return from the Serengeti unchanged, for tawny lions will forever prowl our memory and great herds throng our imagination.”
“I knew the way lost hopes could be dangerous, how they could turn a person into someone they never thought they'd be.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.322, Pan Macmillan
“Genius is the basis for the deepest type of mentoring. When true learning occurs genius teaches genius and both the teacher and the student grow.”

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