Quotes with rock-and-roll

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  • Barry Eichengreen For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
    Barry Eichengreen
    American economist
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  • Brendan Myers For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita For those who wish to climb the mountain of spiritual awareness, the path is selfless work. For those who have attained the summit of union with the Lord, the path is stillness and peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Aristotle For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. R. Ammons For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Caitlin Doughty For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel For three years, the 'Meistersinger' score was a ball and chain to me. It went with me to every city and concert hall.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Bob Beauprez For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bob Riley For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Samuel Butler For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions - largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Adam Clayton For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else.
    Adam Clayton
    Irish musician (1960 - )
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  • Berenice Bejo For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.
    Berenice Bejo
    French-Argentine actress (1976 - )
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  • Francis Thompson For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
    Francis Thompson
    English poet and mystic (1859 - 1907)
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  • Samuel Butler For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Jane Austen For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Kahlil Gibran For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Cassiodorus For what is more glorious than music, which modulates the heavenly system with its sonorous sweetness, and binds together with its virtue the concord of nature which is scattered everywhere?
    Source: Variae, Bk. 2, no. 40; p. 38.
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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