"Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth."

-- Joseph Addison

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“My secret passion is motorbikes. I want a Kawasaki Ninja.”
“Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.”
“Nicklaus at the 86 Masters. At his age, with his game at the time.”
“The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.”
“I never dreamed I would be producing the Oscars. That was a huge deal for me.”
“Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
“The loneliness of the expatriate is of an odd and complicated kind, for it is inseparable from the feeling of being free, of having escaped.”

Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
“The world of the commodity is a world upside-down, which bases itself not upon life but upon the transformation of life into work.”

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