Characteristics Quote by Edgar Wilson Nye

“The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.” quote by Edgar Wilson Nye — Download Open image

“The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.”

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Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe. The cowboy and…

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States. Of course, I'm speaking only from memory.

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The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more…

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Many people have traveled all their lives and yet do not know how to behave themselves when on the road... Ladies and gentlemen should…

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I rise from bed the first thing in the morning, leaving my couch not because I am dissatisfied with it, but because I cannot…

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We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

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They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

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Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and…

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Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

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Sometimes, Ms. Lane," he said, "one must break with one's past to embrace one's future. It is never an easy thing to do. It…

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Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories…

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Consequently, citizen legislators, rotating back to their communities after a short period of public service—considered an indispensable and routine characteristic and design of representative government at the time of the founding, and for a century thereafter—have been replaced with a professional ruling class led by governing masterminds. For the most part, they are isolated from the communities from which they…

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A second characteristic of the process which for me is the good life, is that it involves an increasingly tendency to live fully in…

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Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

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God has given this way of life to Israel: to abstain from everything which is contrary to nature, that is to say, anger, fits…

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Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron frame of the hearth, the black cooking pots and pans and stoves. Was it a mourning? Was it protective coloration? Was it mere depression of the senses? No matter what the original color of the paleotechnic…

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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play…

Henry David Thoreau