#ian

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 wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts. ↗

— Bootsy Collins

#away #because #become #concerts #get

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed. ↗

— Shawn Colvin

#america #bars #began #eagles #easy

Religion is the bane of humanity as Christianity is its salvation. ↗

— Sonia Rumzi

#humanity #religion #religion

My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over the long run. ↗

— Dennis Conner

#consistent #flashy #goal #individual #just

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#belief #brought #christians #faith #lost

Gifted women musicians and composers rarely received their due. ↗

— James Cook

#due #gifted #musicians #rarely #received

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap. ↗

— Robert Crandall

#deal #did #full #i #people

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

Yes, my mother was a singer, and my father played piano and keyboards. They were in a band together, though they also had regular jobs because they had kids and stuff like that. ↗

— Caroline Corr

#band #because #father #had #jobs