- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Blue
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
- Nov 07, 2020
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
- Nov 07, 2020
Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.
- Dialects
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- Nov 07, 2020
To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
- Magic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.
- Galactica
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the set looks great. It's kind of like Battlestar Galactica meets like the Italian furniture fair.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Practical storage pieces are great if you have a basement or a garage. But when you actually live with them day in and day out, they should be beautiful to look at.
- Deliberately
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- Nov 07, 2020
I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020