"The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you"

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Source : Charles Ives (2004). “Essays Before a Sonata”, p.96, 1st World Publishing

Charles Ives

#Doe Quotes #Use Quotes #Degenerates Quotes

“Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky: So this winged hour is dropt to us from above. Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower, This close-companioned inarticulate hour When twofold silence was the song of love.”

Source : 'The House of Life' (1881) pt. 1 'Silent Noon'
“It was not that I thought I was smarter. I had simply explored science and found what seemed to me a far more powerful authority. And, I did not steal or murder because I thought they were wrong, not because I feared damnation.”

Source : Victor J. Stenger (2003). “Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe”, Pyr Books
“I live for my sons. I would be lost without them.”
“We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful.”
“It's a culmination of your life of surfing when you turn and paddle in at Mavericks.”
“What world leader is considered the most controversial and everyone has a view of him? That's Putin.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”
“Attitude is the whole thing in football. Every team has the talent and the coaching. Motivation makes the difference. The teams that win stay healthy and interested.”

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