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Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.
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Any young boy can nowadays explain human flight - mechanistically: " ... and to climb you shove the throttle all the way forward and pull back just a little on the stick. ... " One might as well explain music by saying that the further over to the right you hit the piano the higher it will sound. The makings of a flight are not in the levers, wheels, and pedals but in the nervous system of the pilot: physical sensations, bits of textbook, deep-rooted instincts, burnt-child memories of trouble aloft, hangar talk.
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Our story opens where countless stories have ended in the last twenty-six years: with an idiot -- in this case, my brother, Shaun -- deciding it would be a good idea to go out and poke a zombie with a stick to see what happens.
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The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
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It was hard to be away from home, but I am glad that I am home now.
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Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.
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My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu.
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The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Say not: “When I have free time I shall studyâ€, for you may perhaps never have any free time