Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
Karen DeCrow
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I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.
Christopher Hitchens
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Self-righteousness, when you think about it, is a contra-indicator of self-esteem. It's what sets in when genuine righteousness eludes us.
Meghan Daum
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To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
William Jay Smith
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As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.
Stephen Fry
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I'd want it to be really special to both of us, but I'm a huge fan of 'At Last' as a wedding song. But what's also really cool is songs that no one else would have at their wedding, like an obscure Radiohead song.
Mary Lambert
CoolSongWeddingWantSpecialUs
I hardly grew up mono-lingually! I was raised religious, so there's a tradition of semi-access to a second language. When I learned my ABCs, they taught us our Aleph-Bet at the same time.
Nathan Englander
TimeLanguageTraditionSameUpUs
The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.
Jordan Peterson
ThinkUsMadeThanTVNarrow
I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.
Abbas Kiarostami
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He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.
John Brough
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Everybody can dig The Beatles, but why should everybody dig us?
Bruce Johnston
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Each and every one of us who is still lucky enough to have our parents has a duty to them. We do owe them.
Ann Jillian
ParentsEnoughDutyLuckyUsStill
Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
Peter Landesman
LifeLoveHurtAliveSometimesUs
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
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Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
Sam Levenson
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Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
Lou Gramm
MusicTodayPeopleThinkNewUs
We have a very robust online business, but convincing luxury houses to join us on the website has involved a lot of groveling.
Karen Katz
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With Net Neutrality, the level playing field that gave us Google, YouTube and eBay when they were start-ups would suddenly start to tilt in favor of the big, established players.
Chellie Pingree
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God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.
Meir Soloveichik
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The stories have been told so often by those of us who supported President Reagan over the years that they seem mundane, almost like a fictional novel or a movie script.
William L. Jenkins
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Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
LiveWinSometimesInsideRealUs
I'm drawn to the taboos that surround the human body. I find it fascinating that we are repelled by many of the acts and processes that keep us alive.
Mary Roach
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We all have that superhero inside us, but it's about tapping into it and embracing it and owning it.
Nafessa Williams
InsideSuperheroUsOwningEmbracing
Well, the biggest Norwegian newspaper regarded this as an arrest, since they hadn't told us that they were coming and they brought me in. So the biggest Norwegian newspaper looked upon that as an arrest.
Jon Johansen
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