Frederick Delius Quotes
You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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There's nothing simple when you're in this 'Good Place.'
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
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I don't know why 'happy' can't be a story.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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To be clear and unequivocal, I can say that Islamisation is constitutionally banned in Hungary.
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I was brought up in a very rural area on grounds of a castle. It was a working farm, and I even remember the local shepherd wearing his Barbour jacket.
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Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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As seventh graders, my classmates and I would make rockets to see what made them fly and models of remote-controlled motor boats because Palanpur had heavy rainfall.
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During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.
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I rise today to commemorate one of the most fateful days in the history of the State of Colorado, the day the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant outside of Boulder nearly became America's own Chernobyl, some 30 years before that terrible accident in the Ukraine.
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You can't teach a young musician to compose any more than you can teach a delicate plant to grow, but you can guide him a little by planting a stick in here and a stick in there.
