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Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.
-- Constant Lambert

Source : "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, "Music and the Naughty 'Nineties", Hogarth Press edition, p. 64, 1985.

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The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing that it seeks to destroy.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
-- Yuichiro Miura

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“The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.”
“You might as well appeal against the thunderstorm.”
“The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena.”
“With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!”
“All of us, consciously or unconsciously, set out to have the best possible love life. Valentine's Day simply shines a light on the degree to which that didn't - or hasn't yet - materialized.”

Source : "In Defense Of Valentine’s Day" by Tracy McMillan, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.
“The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.”
“Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.14, Grove Press
“He stared at the heart of his heart, the one woman in the world for him”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2005). “Mortal Danger”, p.28, Penguin
“I don`t think the Disney Channel gives us enough credit for the age range Lizzie McGuire actually has. College students come up to me, grandparents, famous people. It`s really funny.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The most political thing you can do is be yourself”