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“Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.”
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“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.”
Source : "The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (Letting the Fossil Record Speak; Life - How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?)". Book by Robert Jastrow (p. 23), 1981.
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“The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.”
Source : Austin Phelps (1882). “Men and Books: Or Studies in Homiletics; Lectures Introductory to The Theory of Preaching”
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“Believing that you can move mountains sometimes is more important than actually having the ability to do so.”
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“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.”
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“The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave”
Source : Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger: A Novel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
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“A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.”
Source : "Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland". Book by Sam Morgenstern, p. 60, 1956.
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“Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution.”
Source : John Burroughs (2001). “Literary Values and Other Papers”, p.56, The Minerva Group, Inc.
