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«The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees...»
Author: Andre Segovia
| About:
Advice,
Music,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Beautiful Music, big tree, flowering tree, instruments, islands, profoundly, students, The Flowers
«The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.»
Author: Emmet Fox
(Author, Lecturer)
| About:
Art,
God,
Life,
The Present
| Keywords:
expression, instruments, present moment, realization
«Stories ought not to be just little bits of fantasy that are used to wile away an idle hour; from the beginning of the human race stories have been used - by priests, by bards, by medicine men - as magic instruments of healing, of teaching, as a means of helping people come to terms with the fact that they continually have to face insoluble problems and unbearable realities»
Author: Joan Delano Aiken
(Writer)
| Keywords:
bard, bards, bits, instruments, race problem, the bard, wile, wiles
«The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
beings, condemned, condemning, conventions, human beings, individual, instruments, monstrous, murder, murdered, murdering, politics, quarreled, quarreling, quarrels, shocking, the Convention, the conventions, victims
«The men of action are, after all only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought»
«The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
| About:
Defense,
Tyranny
| Keywords:
at home, defense, foreign, historically, instruments
«The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
draws, facilitate, facilitated, immensely, instruments, production, rapid
«So he left there before the ark of the covenant of the LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required: / And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight; Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters: / And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon, / To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel; / And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever; / And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
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«Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.»
«The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
instruments, plague, Plague The, plaguing, vices
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