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Jeffrey Vlaming
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.
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Jilly Cooper
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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Author Unknown
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.
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H. E. Luccock
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes an orchestra to play it.
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Robert Smith
Knowing that everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying of the light -- that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense of futility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You can still be aware of it but find a place for it where you can actually exist comfortably and enjoy things.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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William S. Burroughs
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say I want to see the manager.
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Author Unknown
The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.
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Thomas Carlyle
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Adrienne E. Gusoff
I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.
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Errol Flynn
It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.
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Pittacus
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
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