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"Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum." »Charles Spencer
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"I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts the rest are details." »Albert Einstein
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"There is nothing like a coup de foudre and absorption in family responsibility for maturing the male and pulling his scattered wits together." »Sir V Pritchett
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"The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption." »Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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"Playing seems to be both disinterested and passionate at the same time disinterested in that it is not for real, and passionate in the absorption it requires." »Oliver Bevan
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"Dateline Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum." »Jeffrey Vlaming
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