"We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it."

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Johannes Brahms

#Melody Quotes #Handle Quotes

“John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.”
“People in Michigan are good at separating fact from fiction. They know, better than most of the country, what happens to the economy and jobs when the scales are tipped too far in favor of one group over another.”
“Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer.”
“The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO brick that comes out, I mean what type of product can span generations like that, there is something really special to it.”
“The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.”
“true weanedness from the world don't consist in being beat off from the world by the affliction of it, but a being drawn off by the sight of something better.”
“Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.”

Source : Imre Lakatos (1978). “Philosophical Papers”
“You shouldn't be looking for the secret to making people follow fads, you should be looking for the secret to making them think for themselves. Because that's what science is all about.”

Source : Connie Willis (1996). “Futures Imperfect”, Doubleday Books

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