Composition Quote by Nancy Gibbs

“Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.”

Nancy Gibbs

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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

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George W. Bush, though a president's son, is cast as Reagan's heir even more than his father's.

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