"There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more."

-- Michael Cunningham

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“One pretends to do something, or copy someone or some teacher, until it can be done confidently and easily in what becomes one's own style”
“Cosmoe is nearing the stage where I would feel comfortable doing a preliminary release aimed at developers.”

Source : Interview with Eugenia Loli, www.osnews.com. May 13, 2002.
“There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.”

Source : Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.510, Ravenio Books
“A powerful force drives the world toward a converging commonality, and that force is technology. â€¦ Almost everyone everywhere wants all the things they have heard about, seen, or experienced via the new technologies.”
“The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble.”
“All progressions from a higher to a lower order are marked by ruins and mystery and a residue of nameless rage.”
“This reference to the Scots side of her ancestry is the first of two visual explorations into Tori Amos's diverse cultural past. As is the case for many of us, Tori's ancestry is a mix of races and religions, philosophies and professions, fortunes and foibles. What to some may seem like a family tree grown wild and untamed is actually a mighty oak that has weathered life's many storms and can still put out a rare and beautiful blossom like Tori.”
“For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.”

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