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“Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.”
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“Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!”
Source : Chris Colfer (2012). “The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell”, p.25, Hachette UK
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“In order to gain some insight into the forces that elevate certain products to the level of 'works of art' it is helpful - among other investigations - to look into the economic and political underpinnings of the institutions, individuals and groups who share in the control of power.”
Source : Hans Haacke, Museum of Modern Art (Oxford, England), Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum (1978). “Hans Haacke: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 1978; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 1979”
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“The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.”
Source : Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings”, p.63, Penguin UK
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“The fun of being in the pop world is you can really play with people's perceptions of what the word pop means.”
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“Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
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“Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.”
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“When something good hits me, I'll use Siri to make a note so I don't forget.”