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It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky
By a great man, however, we mean a man who, because of his spiritual gifts, his character, and other qualities, deserves to be called great… — Fredrik Bajer
The stock market is a no-called-strike game. You donâ€™t have to swing at everything â€“ you can wait for your pitch. — Warren Buffett
I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never… — Boris Johnson
If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards. — John Henry Newman
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. — John Henry Newman
In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down… — Warren Beatty
Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships. — Sacha Baron Cohen
The world taught women nothing skillful and then said her work was valueless. It permitted her no opinions and said she did not know how… — Carrie Chapman Catt
Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A lot of the old-school artists didnâ€™t even respect whatâ€™s being called freestyle now... any emcee coming off the top of the head wasnâ€™t really… — Kool Moe Dee
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among… — June Jordan
The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves. — John B. Watson
Theyâ€™re called poems but in reality theyâ€™re lines given to me to hang on to — John Trudell
Most Kabbalists were theorists who were interested only in pure meditation. But there were so-called 'practical Kabbalists' who tried to apply the power of the… — Neal Stephenson
The big tradition, I think, is unity. And I have that in mind; and with that, you know, you could break all the traditions- all… — Roy Lichtenstein
In the life of everyone there is a limited number of experiences which are not written upon the memory, but stamped there with a die;… — James Weldon Johnson
I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it. — Ann Radcliffe
In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called! — Francisco de Quevedo
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the… — Matthew Henry

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