Still Life - Roman Hurko composed a Requiem for the victims of Chornobyl. Sung a cappella and in the Ukrainian language, it was recorded in Kyiv, Ukraine with the Frescoes of Kyiv Chamber Choir.
"Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make them all yourself." (John Luther) Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
-- Oscar Wilde, dying words Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.
-- Anonymous Music Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
-- Henry Ford "Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day." (Ali bin The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
-- Lord Byron Music
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a
natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-- Groucho Marx Music Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.
-- Patricia Sampson If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
-- Abraham Lincoln Music
"I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-- Albert Einstein Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation.
-- Francis Bacon I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere Music It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
- Aristotle "No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." (William Blake) Music
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
-- Mother Teresa "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to
be perfectly deaf.
-- Oscar Wilde "I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free." (Nikos Kazantzakis) I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like
toxic waste.
-- David Bissonette Music Grow old with me! The best is yet to be!
-- Robert Browning The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and
ethical infants.
-- General Omar Bradley "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Music
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and
retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are
certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted
by a little physical antipathy.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche Music I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
-- Socrates We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution,
of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always
be "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Music
Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food.
-- Anonymous A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.
-- Thomas Carruthers And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz Music All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.
-- Oscar Wilde Health food makes me sick.
-- Calvin Trillin Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a
brand new ending.
-- Anonymous Music
I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I
believed in liberals...
-- G. K. Chesterton Consequences, schmonsequences, as long as I'm rich!
-- Chuck Jones-directed cartoon The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by
trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by l The Middle Eastern states aren't nations; they're quarrels with borders.
-- P. J. O'Rourke "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' Music A hippo does not have a sting in its tail, but a wise man would still rather be sat on by a bee.
-- Polish proverb Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by
committee meetings.
-- George F. Will, journalist, political commentator, 1994 The telephone company is urging people to *please* not use the telephone unless it is absolutely
necessary in order to keep the lines open for emergency personnel. We'll be right back after this
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There is no future in any job. The future lies in the man who holds the job.
-- George Crane An economic forecaster is like a cross-eyed javelin thrower: they don't win many accuracy
contests, but they keep the crowd's attention.
-- Anonymous Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
-- Confucius Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions.
-- John Randolph Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
-- Norman R. Augustine Music "When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." (William Shakespeare) "No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." (Calvin Coolidge) We have drugs to make women speak, but none to keep them silent.
-- Anatole France Music
What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller "No one wants a good education. Everyone wants a good degree." (Lee Rudolph) "One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
-- John Tudor Music Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure.
-- Anonymous The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.
-- Frank Rizzo, ex-police chief and mayor of Philadelphia There is no realizable power that man cannot, in time, fashion the tools to attain, nor any power
so secure that the naked ape will not abuse it. So it is written in the genetic cards - only physics Music
A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. "What
do you mean?" responded her mother. "Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came
back with ano It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and
superior impartiality.
-- Arnold Bennett This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
-- Louise Hay "Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?" (George Bernard Shaw) Music Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong
and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny
is but th Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
-- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And Music
"Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi "You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break." (Harry S. Tru Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. --H.L. Mencken I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat.
-- Michael McShane If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model.
Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
-- Dawn French Music "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) Marry in haste, repent in leisure.
-- Tilney No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.
-- Channing Pollack Music
