"Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred."

-- Bryant H. McGill

#Literature Quotes #Appreciated Quotes #Rudeness Quotes

“I could create music that sounded as strange as any electronic music, because you see, my opinion about electronic music is that the real composer is the guy who invented the instrument. Pressing buttons is not composing. Composing is about creating something.”

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“Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.”
“This sounds really lame, but I'm pretty proud of my feet.”
“Persons extremely reserved are like old enamelled watches, which had painted covers, that hindered your seeing what o'clock it was.”
“If it was really true that predation is God's will, it would have to follow for Christians that the life of Jesus -- what after all is the self-disclosure of God -- manifested and vindicated this predator/prey relationship. Such a gospel would be substantially different from the one we currently have.... Instead of raising Lazarus from the dead, the Predator Jesus could only comment that death is God's blessing. Instead of preaching the good news of the coming kingdom of God, the proclamation would run: "Eat and be eaten.”
“Nonsense and noise will oft prevail, When honor and affection fail.”
“The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest ...”
“Bilingualism is not an imposition on the citizens. The citizens can go on speaking one language or six languages, or no languages if they so choose. Bilingualism is an imposition on the state and not the citizens.”

Source : "Problems of Journalism". Book by the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1966.

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