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“What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?”
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“I'm a fully paid-up member of the human race.”
Source : "Gently does it?" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2005.
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“Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams in 1900. It introduced the notion that there existed certain predictable and identifiable processes by which dreams were formed.”
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“A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.”
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“Painting is drawing, with the additional means of color.”
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“Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?”
Source : Margaret Mahy (2007). “Maddigan's Fantasia”, p.456, Simon and Schuster
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“It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend to say that the older form of a language is in some sense 'better' than the form that is being used today.”
Source : Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern (2010). “An Introduction to Historical Linguistics”, p.18, Oxford University Press
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“Having a girlfriend was no longer my greatest need. Knowing and obeying Him was . I wanted to please Him in my relationships even if it meant looking radical and foolish to other people - even if it meant kissing dating goodbye.”
Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.18, Multnomah