"Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language."

-- Leo Ornstein

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“And of course, in West Germany, they made every effort that people who came from the East would get jobs and would get a comfortable existence. That was part of the Cold War - and part of the winning side of the Cold War.”
“In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.”

Source : William Bligh (1838). “A narrative of the mutiny on board his majesty's ship Bounty”, p.12
“For us to feel peace within our hearts while we live here on earth we must be righteous. There is nothing that the world calls fun or pleasurable that can compare to the inner happiness and joy that comes from being righteous, nothing. That may be something you don't think much about, but if you will take time to identify how you feel when you make an unrighteous choice and compare that to how you feel when you make a difficult but righteous choice, you will know what I am talking about.”
“I was out-niggered, and I will never be out-niggered again.”
“Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God.”

Source : Erwin W. Lutzer (2015). “Failure: the Back Door to Success”, p.9, Moody Publishers
“Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.”
“I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.”

Source : "Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. September 5, 2012.
“Prose is not necessarily good because it obeys the rules of syntax, but it is fairly certain to be bad if it ignores them.”

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