#con

Japan's inexplicable lack of response to even consider a move to re-open their market to U.S. beef will sorely tempt economic trade action against Japan. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#against #beef #consider #economic #even

The backbone of our nation's domestic defense against terrorist attacks will continue to be the men and women in local law enforcement and emergency services. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#attacks #backbone #continue #defense #domestic

When I spoke, I was listened to; and I was at a loss to know how I had so easily acquired the art of commanding attention, and giving the tone to the conversation. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#art #attention #commanding #conversation #easily

Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#being #california #certainly #commitment #contemporary

Hence my obstinate emphasis on stylistic continuity from work to work rather than specific sibling relationships between the individual work and other members of its stylistic 'family' in the world outside. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#continuity #emphasis #family #hence #individual

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#circumstances #control #you #your

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#concrete #cyclic #each #entire #form

If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#assured #being #both #clutter #continue

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

#arise #chaotic #come #contact #fluctuations

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. ↗

— Chanakya

#balanced #contentment #covetousness #disease #equal