"There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford."

-- William Shenstone

#Country Quotes #Quality Quotes #Preservation Quotes

“Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit”
“Classrooms and educations need to be places of infectious passion”
“Cornelius Cardew very famous in Britain, because he was the darling of the avant-garde, and he played in a band called AMM, which was an improvising band in the '60s. Paul McCartney used to come watch them. Later on in life, he became disenchanted with avant-garde music, because he felt it couldn't reach the public. It didn't have a wide enough appeal. So he'd take these tunes of old English folk songs and write Stalinist lyrics over the top of them. I do think that when he changed to folk songs, he actually lost the tiny audience he already had, which is quite interesting.”

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“I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.”
“I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.”

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“Now suddenly there was nothing but a world of cloud, and we three were there alone in the middle of a great white plain with snowy hills and mountains staring at us; and it was very still; but there were whispers.”
“For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.”
“Taming the financial markets and winning back democratic control over them is the central condition for creating a new social balance in Germany and Europe.”

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