"The most difficult thing in music is still to write a melody of several bars which can be self-sufficient. That is the secret of music. While the technique should be as perfected as possible, that is a lesser essential Anybody can acquire a brilliant technique Melody alone permits a work to survive."

-- Darius Milhaud

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“Good poems do a lot of things at once. Often, by doing so, they encourage us to acknowledge mixed and incompatible feelings. Good poems, like good works of history, resist monocausal explanations for anything. There's not one reason why I am angry or excited or hopeful, when I feel those things. And there's not one reason why President Obama won two elections. And there's not one reason why Donald Trump won the most recent presidential election.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“I think all actors - they'll hate me for saying this - but we are babies. We like to be loved, and we'll do anything if we're loved.”
“Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.”
“Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom”

Source : YouTube Channel "organicjerk"/"Classic Doom 2 Preview/Trailer", www.youtube.com. January 25, 2006.
“The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.”

Source : Ernst Rohm's SA summer furlough decree, "Völkischer Beobachter", June 10, 1934.
“There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.”
“Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.”
“There were times in my career I went a little further than I wanted because of expectations. Doing certain things onstage when children were in the audience, wearing certain clothes, singing certain lyrics.”

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