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He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

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• Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Music
  • Reason
  • Emotion

• A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Long
  • Doing
  • Brazil

• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Women
  • Number
  • Mechanical

• The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Mean
  • Fans
  • Special

• I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Book
  • Jesus
  • Ideas

• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value

• Ch. 4 : The Garden

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Garden

• There are very few movies in English about romantic obsession told with a seriousness of purpose.

  

  James Gray
  • Purpose
  • English
  • Romantic

• I remember watching 'Quantum Leap' when I was a kid with my family, so I think that's fun and nostalgic.

  

  Matt Lanter
  • Family
  • Remember
  • Fun

• To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Moving
  • Painting

• Nonprofits such as the Trump Foundation are prohibited from giving political gifts.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Political
  • Giving
  • Trump

• Cyber weapons won't go away, and their spread can't be controlled. Instead, as we've done for other destructive technologies, the world needs to establish a set of principles to determine the proper conduct of governments regarding cyber conflict.

  

  Jared Cohen
  • World
  • Done

• Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

  

  David Attenborough
  • World

• I like a woman who has a vocabulary larger than 'shoes' and 'handbags.' But a nice pair of legs to go in the shoes is always good, too.

  

  Kirk Acevedo
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Shoes

• We realized that the only persons we can truly trust in this world is each other and our families.

  

  Marion Jones
  • World
  • Trust

• From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Beginning

• 'Better to make haste slowly than not at all,' said Amnir sententiously.

  

  Leigh Brackett

• We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Chance
  • Belief
  • Agnostic

• Mad, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech, and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that they themselves are sane.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • High
  • Action
  • Study

• Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is too precious, do not destroy it. Life is life, fight for it.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Life
  • Song
  • inspirational

• The man dies in all those that keep silent.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Men
  • Silent
  • Dies

• He is nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent.

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Silence
  • Silent