"The Lord of Learning who upraised mankind from being silent brutes to singing men."

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Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.2

Charles Godfrey Leland

#Learning Quotes #Men Quotes #Singing Quotes

“Our time and attention is scarce. Art is not that important to us, no matter what we might like to believe... Our love of art is often quite temporary, dependent upon our moods, and our love of art is subservient to our demand for a positive self image. How we look at art should account for those imperfections and work around them. Keep in mind that books, like art museums, are not always geared to the desires of the reader. Maybe we think we are supposed to like tough books, but are we? Who says? Many writers (and art museums) produce for quite a small subsample of the... public.”

Source : Tyler Cowen (2008). “Discover Your Inner Economist: Use Incentives to Fall in Love, Survive Your Next Meeting, and Motivate Your Den tist”, p.41, Penguin
“School is very important; it was very important for me. It gave me an enormous amount of confidence, especially at Yale where we were dealing with all the classics. In dealing with the classics, you are dealing with the very best.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Managements, you know, often think of themselves.”
“So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours”
“You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.”
“There are things about growing up in a small town that you can't necessarily quantify.”
“All I'm saying is once you've been out in the woods and heard the things I've heard, you'd believe in Big Foot and the chupacabra.”
“Pilgrims are persons in motion passing through territories not their own, seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well, a goal to which only the spirit's compass points the way.”

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