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Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.


Brian Eno


#agressive #declines #impact #inevitable #music

In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in a certain general or theoretical sense, is left a cripple or invalid.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#certain #circumstances #cripple #decline #earlier

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.


Saskya Pandita


#behavior #burning #decline #drawn #even

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out.


Arne Jacobsen


#declined #enthusiasm #everything #grandma #hand

Fiction is a kind of compassion-generating machine that saves us from sloth. Is life kind or cruel? Yes, Literature answers. Are people good or bad? You bet, says Literature. But unlike other systems of knowing, Literature declines to eradicate one truth in favor of another.


George Saunders


#answers #bad #bet #cruel #declines

But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them.


Pete Seeger


#ever #i #listened #other #people

I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known.


Pete Seeger


#decline #discuss #else #i #known

You could say people are living longer because of the decline in religion. Not many people believe in the hereafter, so they keep going.


Cyril Clarke


#believe #could #decline #going #hereafter

Its highest point was The Worst Journey in the World. Then you see this decline, and this harking back, using the 19th-century form when we're not in the 19th century. That way of writing a book about the world out there - you just can't do it anymore.


Robyn Davidson


#19th-century #about #anymore #back #book

This cream will help one's nature strengthen and grow, The diet gives support in my decline.


Du Fu


#decline #diet #gives #grow #help






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