"Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness."

-- Edgar Allan Poe

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“I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.”
“When you're fearful, you stumble.”
“Weâ€™re surrounded by anonymous, poorly made objects. Itâ€™s tempting to think itâ€™s because the people who use them donâ€™t care-just like the people who make them. But what weâ€™ve shown is that people do care. Itâ€™s not just about aesthetics. They care about things that are thoughtfully conceived and well made. We make and sell a very, very large number of (hopefully) beautiful, well-made things. our success is a victory for purity, integrity-for giving a damn.”
“There are moments when very little truth would be enough to shape opinion. One might be hated at extremely low cost.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”
“The time to talk about it [genetic engineering to improve a baby's genes] in schools and churches and magazines and debate societies is now. If you wait, five years from now the gene doctor will be hanging out the MAKE A SMARTER BABY sign down the street.”
“After creating the heaven, the earth, the ocean, and the entire animal kingdom, God created Adam and Eve. And the first thing He said to them was "Don't."”
“Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.”
“Talking about football on TV is something I can do with my eyes closed.”

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