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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Book
  • Silence

• We need to understand the difference between discipline and punishment. Punishment is what you do to someone; discipline is what you do for someone.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Understand
  • Discipline

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Feeling
  • Military
  • Last

• When decorum is repression, the only dignity free men have is to speak out.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Men
  • Free
  • Speak

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Progress
  • Healthy
  • Prelude

• But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Famous
  • Move
  • Circles

• Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Just
  • Workplace
  • Worse

• I think that inexpensive sources of planet-friendly energy are one of the most important things for us to pursue.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Important
  • Think
  • Energy

• The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Great
  • Hunting
  • Duck

• There is no moral distinction between fur and other materials made from animals, such as leather, which also is the result of the suffering and death of sentient beings.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Death
  • Suffering
  • Moral

• Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Free

• Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!

  

  Walter Savage Landor

• Ah, Los Angeles. One disaster after another, always has been.

  

  Kage Baker

• It was as easy to be alone with six kin as it is to be alone by yourself, and maybe easier.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Alone

• Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Song
  • Childhood

• Some say that I should settle down, go slower and not push so hard, so quickly for such transformational change. To them, I say that you misunderstand the size of the problems we face, the strength of the status quo and the urgency of the people's desire for change.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • People
  • Change
  • Desire

• I tend to not only read reviews, but also every little stupid thing online. It's a very bad idea, and there's a lot of angry people in the world. And it's weird to absorb all that weirdness.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • World
  • Friends

• One thing my mother did is that she never looked in the mirror and said, 'I'm so fat,'or 'I'm so ugly. I need to go on a diet.' Projecting that onto yourself is only going to make your daughter or son think that of themselves. Because they're a product of you.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • She
  • Mother
  • Son

• I am honored to be named Godfather for Norwegian Bliss. This incredible ship and all the innovative activities onboard, from the race track to Broadway shows, perfectly reflect the energy and excitement of our morning show, and we are looking forward to bringing our loyal listeners along for this once-in-a-lifetime experience.

  

  Elvis Duran
  • Experience
  • Energy
  • Morning

• The smartest people in the world are not in charge, they work for the action takers.

  

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