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No system of religion should go in partnership with barbarism. Neither should any Christian feel it his duty to defend the savagery of the past. ”
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. ”
A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. ”
Who would have thought that a tap-dancing penguin would outpoint James Bond at the box office? And deserve to? Not that there's anything wrong with 'Casino Royale.' But 'Happy Feet' - written and directed by George Miller - is a complete charmer, even if, in the way of most family fare, it can't resist straying into the Inspirational. ”
The early giants of modern dance - Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis - barely left traces of their art. ”
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!' ”
There is a modern take on certain things you can do that, to me, is still jazz. ”
A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. ”
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market. ”
However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously. ”