"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything." -Plato

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Some people are like Slinkies.

They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Iron Kissed, Patricia Briggs

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter.

He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

Im doing good, Jimmy, Im doing good. But I aint paying 28 million bucks." Tom Hanks

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... charismatic people with grotesque ideas end up wielding prestige and authority ... -- Paul Berman ("The Flight of the Intellectuals") (2010)

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