Macedonian Music Council - Detailed lists of composers, musicians, musicologists and folk instruments.
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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.
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-- Kant, Immanuel Marriage is a great institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
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-- Virginia Woolf My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a
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- Socrates In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson
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Music is the art of thinking with sounds.
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"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country." (Marquis de Lafayette) Whatever you are, be a good one.
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My initial response was to sue her for defamation of character, but then I realized that I had no
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Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
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themselves.
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good.
-- H.L. Mencken Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who
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-- Woody Allen Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
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