"I really tried to go for that sound of the '60s pop melodies but I'm living in the present so that makes it contemporary. I like to pretend I'm outside of myself and that is what the recordings and the process helped me to do."

-- Matt Costa

#Live In The Present Quotes #Melody Quotes

“An attempt to study the evolution of living organisms without reference to cytology would be as futile as an account of stellar evolution which ignored spectroscopy.”
“The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk”
“We've got a national campaign by drug legalizers, in my view, to try and use medicinal uses of drugs and legalization of hemp as a stalking horse to get in under the radar screen.”
“I decided to accept as true my own thinking.”
“One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)”

Source : Edward Conze (1959). “Buddhist Scriptures”, [Harmondsworth, Middlesex ; Baltimore] : Penguin Books
“I'm not a pessimist. Maybe I don't have a primitive feeling of happiness, that is true. Sometimes my color is happy but not the expression.”

Source : "Karel Appel - the complete sculptures". Book edited by Harry de Visser and Roland Hagenberg, Edition Lafayette, New York, p. 85 'Quotes', 1990.
“Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.”

Source : Tim Wise (2013). “Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity”, p.117, City Lights Books
“Then the Lord said, "This is the year of crazy, substantial hope." Then I saw many sitting around the Table of the Lord whom He was about to address. There was such communion, love, and honor. Then the Lord took His place at the Table. I was overwhelmed with the presence of the Lord. He was so alive. He was so much fun. But He made it very clear that this year the Body of Christ was being evaluated in their hope.”

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