Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Quotes

What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

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• I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

  

  Edmund Hillary
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• Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Criticism
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• The centuries-old habit of privileging the male heir arose because monarchs were supposed to lead their country in battle, and only men were thought strong enough to do so.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Men
  • Country
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• A wise traveler never depreciates their own country.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
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• I hope that, somewhere, Mom and Dad are proud that little Walter is performing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

  

  Walter Cronkite
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• Cape Town is a weird town. There's a mountain, and the sea, and a little city tucked into the side of the mountain.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
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• You want to stand out and be unique and do something different. I always try to zig when they zag - I guess it's a football term, but it applies to a lot of different areas of life.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Life
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• As a coach, you feel like you're letting everybody down.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Feelings
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• Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Sad
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• Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be . . . scarier.

  

  Nalini Singh
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• Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

  

  Patrick Henry
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• Satan always sends error into the world in pairs that are opposites. His great hope is that you will get so upset about one of his errors, that you'll react into the opposite one, and he's got you.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

  

  Virginia Woolf
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• At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

  

  Haruki Murakami
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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

  Jackson Katz
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• It is my view that there is no sensible military use for nuclear weapons, whether "strategic" weapons, "tactical" weapons, "theatre" weapons, weapons at sea or weapons in space.

  

  Noel Gayler
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• What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

  

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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