"The enormity of the universe revealed by science cannot readily be grasped by the human brain, but the music of The Planets enables the mind to acquire some comprehension of the vastness of space where rational understanding fails."

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Source : "Gustav Holst 1874-1934: A Centenary Documentation". Book by Michael Short, 1974.

Gustav Holst

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“I learn something from criticism because when it comes from sources you respect you always examine it and learn.”
“Nature has ordained that the man who is pleading his own cause before a large audience, will be more readily listened to than he who has no object in view other than the public benefit.”
“The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.”

Source : "'Matched' Author Ally Condie's Guide To A Dystopian Holiday", www.mtv.com. December 2, 2011.
“Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.”
“Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Many 'well-adjusted' adults are bitter, uncreative, frightened, unimaginative, and rather hostile people. Instead of assuming they were born that way, or that that's what being an adult entails, we might consider them as people damaged by their education and upbringing.”
“I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.”
“It is the passions that do and undo everything.”
“Let's be healthy big people. Everybody can't be a size 0 or 45, but let's be healthy.”

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