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Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
-- Gavin Bryars

Source : Klassiknet Interview, www.culturekiosque.com.

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I'm a hopeless 19th-century romantic.
-- John Banville

Source : "John Banville: a life in writing". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2012.

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I would say I'm a 19th-century liberal, possibly even an 18th-century one.
-- Niall Ferguson

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“I believe animals should be respected as citizens of this earth. They should have the right to their own freedom, their own families, and their own life.”
“Iâ€™ve dreamed a lot. Iâ€™m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”
“Fear and hope remain the same; therefore the study of the psychology of speculators is as valuable as it ever was. Weapons change, but strategy remains strategy, on the New York Stock Exchange as on the battlefield. I think the clearest summing up of the whole thing wasÂ expressed by Thomas F. Woodlock when he declared: â€œThe principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.â€”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.388, Lulu Press, Inc
“I can be mean. Not dirty. But very mean.”
“It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.”
“The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base.”
“When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.”
“YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature and YOU! WILL! ATONE!”
“Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.”

Source : "Our Passion for Justice : Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.
“The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.”