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«When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.»
«True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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«The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.»
Author: Elizabeth Hardwick
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«True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it.»
«Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.»
«Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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«The trumpet's loud clangour / Excites us to arms.»
«Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
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«The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity»
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