"One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it."

-- George Eliot

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“Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.”
“The jean! The jean is the destructor. It is a dictator! It is destroying creativity! The jean must be stopped!”
“It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of man and his social surroundings. To those who look at the rich material provided by history, and who are not intent on impoverishing it in order to please their lower instincts, their craving for intellectual security in the form of clarity, precision, 'objectivity', 'truth', it will become clear that there is only one principle that can be defended under all circumstances and in all stages of human development. It is the principle: anything goes.”

Source : "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.
“Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.”
“From the beginning, Tegan, you were more brother to me than any kin by blood. You still are.â€ Tegan felt likewise, in spite of all theyâ€™d been through. Maybe because of it. â€œIâ€™ll always have your back, Lucan. You can count on it.”
“To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.”
“It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.”
“People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.”

Source : "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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