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The sciences were financially supported, honoured everywhere, universally pursued; they were like tall edifices supported by strong foundations. Then the Christian religion appeared in Byzantium and the centres of learning were eliminated, their vestiges effaced and the edifice of Greek learning was obliterated. Everything the ancient Greeks had brought to light vanished, and the discoveries of the ancients were altered out of recognition. ↗

— Mas'udi

#byzantium #christianity #religion #science #religion

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#anyone #drawn #earn #experience #future

We have to get away from the class warfare and recognize that we are growing jobs by helping small business. ↗

— Norm Coleman

#business #class #class warfare #get #growing

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#commissions #composer #feel #good #gotten

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#anything #being #number #number three #numbers

That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale. ↗

— Phil Collen

#first #get #i #i think #large

Technology is us. There is no separation. It's a pure expression of human creative will. It doesn't exist anywhere else in the universe. I'm rather sure of that. ↗

— David Cronenberg

#creative #else #exist #expression #human

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#degree #genius #humor #people #some

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#gothic #imaginable #infinity #made #principle

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#add #always #disneyland #excited #five