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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. --------------- A forest bird never wants a cage. --------------- A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin. --------------- A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong. --------------- A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed. --------------- Castles in the air - -they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build as well. --------------- Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." --------------- Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." --------------- I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! --------------- In that second it dawned on me that I had been living here for eight years with a strange man and had borne him three children. |
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03-21-2008, 11:44 AM
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Classic Quotes by Johann S. Bach (1685-1750) German composer and organist
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. --------------- It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself. --------------- Bring me A bowl of coffee before I turn into a goat. --------------- I have always kept one end in view, namely, with all good will to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honor of God. --------------- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. --------------- Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. --------------- My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them. --------------- There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. --------------- My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the fees rise in proportion; but when a healthy wind blows, they fall accordingly. |
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03-23-2008, 12:21 PM
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On March 23rd, 1775, Patrick Henry delivered his famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech at St. John's Church in Richmond, VA. Comment on this Story | Printer Friendly | Send Story to a Friend | Top Other Notable Events, March 23 In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act for taxing the American colonies, an action that became a major grievance for rebellious colonials. In 1775, in a speech supporting the arming of the Virginia militia, Patrick Henry declared, "Give me liberty or give me death." In 1942, during World War II, Japanese-Americans were forcibly moved from their homes along the Pacific Coast to inland internment camps. In 1966, Pope Paul VI met Britain's archbishop of Canterbury at the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, the first meeting between the heads of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches in 400 years. In 1983, the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart, Barney Clark of Seattle, died in a Salt Lake City hospital. In 1985, the United States completed the secret air evacuation of 800 Ethiopian Jews to Israel. In 1989, Dick Clark retired from hosting the TV show "American Bandstand" after 33 years. In 1996, Taiwan elected Lee Teng-hui in the island's first direct presidential election. In 1998, Russian President Boris Yeltsin fired his entire Cabinet. Also in 1998, "Titanic" won 11 Academy Awards, tying the record total won by "Ben-Hur" in 1959. In 1999, the vice president of Peru was assassinated. In 2001, the United States expelled 40 Russian diplomats it said were spies. The action had come in response to the arrest of FBI agent and accused Russian spy Robert Hanssen. Also in 2001, the Russian space station Mir was brought down in the Pacific Ocean near Fiji after more than 15 years in orbit. In 2003, a U.S. soldier was arrested after allegedly throwing grenades into the tents of three American officers in Kuwait. Two soldiers died, 12 others were wounded. Also, nine U.S. Marines were killed in Nasiriyah where fellow Marines found 3,000 chemical warfare suits and masks at a hospital. In 2004, a bipartisan government commission, investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, noted in a preliminary report "alarming threats" about a possible al-Qaida attack months before the assault. Also in 2004, NASA said new findings on Mars suggest an ancient sea once covered part of the planet. In 2005, Iraqi forces attacked a training camp for suspected insurgents west of Baghdad, killing 80 gunmen in one of the largest operations to stamp out terrorism. Also in 2005, federal investigators say there is no evidence of terrorism in the deadly BP refinery explosion in Texas City, Texas, that killed 15 workers and left several others in critical condition. In 2006, the U.S. government rested its case in the sentencing trial of admitted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui in Alexandria, Va. The jury will decide whether Moussaoui could have prevented the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and whether he should get the death penalty. In 2007, eight British sailors and seven marines on a U.N. mission patrolling the Persian Gulf were seized at gunpoint by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard who accused them of being in Iranian waters. The British insisted they were in Iraqi territorial waters. |
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03-23-2008, 12:29 PM
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Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? --------------- I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish. --------------- In silence and movement you can show the reflection of people. --------------- It's good to shut up sometimes. --------------- Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music. --------------- Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. --------------- Never get a mime talking. He won't stop. --------------- To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man. --------------- What sculptors do is represent the essence of gesture. What is important in mime is attitude. |
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