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“I've got nothing against records - I've spent my life making them - but they are a kind of historical blip.”

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Brian Eno is a British musician, composer, and music producer, born on May 15, 1948. Known for his innovative musical style and experimental spirit, he has had a profound impact on modern music. more

“When he tries to extend his power over objects, those objects gain control of him. He who is controlled by objects loses possession of his inner self... Prisoners in the world of object, they have no choice but to submit to the demands of matter! They are pressed down and crushed by external forces: fashion, the market, events, public opinion. Never in a whole lifetime do they recover their right mind!... What a pity!”

“The world cannot live at peace without the United Nations. For this reason: it creates a reasonable guarantee that all this change in the world, these tremendous political and economic developments, can be channelized, kept orderly. The United Nations is a mold that keeps the hot metal from spilling over.”

World Reason Political Nations Peace United Economic Development Hot Reasonable Guarantees Metals United Nations Mold Orderly Guarantees That Economic Development Spilling

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."”

World Made Different Three Courses Stars Dark Morning Sun Issues Four Fashion Position Crosses Circles Evening Mortals Rising Passages Temper Stamps Lamps Outlets Hemisphere Sun Rise Equinox

Author:Dante Alighieri

“O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!”

World Enough Thee

Book:Early Poems

Source: Early Poems

“The world is a nettle; disturb it, it stings. Grasp it firmly, it stings not.”

World Nettles

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“Sorrows humanize our race; tears are the showers that fertilize the world.”

World Race Tears Sorrow Showers

Author:Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

“We are all blind until we see That in the human plan Nothing is worth the making If it does not make the man. Why build these cities glorious If man unbuilded goes? We build the world in vain Unless the builders also grow.”

Ifs Men World Humans Doe Grows Cities Plans He Man Blind Vain Glorious Builder

Book:Gates of Paradise and Other Poems: The Fourth Volume of Verse

Source: Gates of Paradise and Other Poems: The Fourth Volume of Verse

“The world is more alive at night; it's like God isn't looking.”

World Night Alive

Author:Elvis Presley

“What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.”

World Firsts Wells Hell Mines Remains Thee Halls Heritage Dross Elysium

Author:Ezra Pound

“I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.”

Whole Dream Night Song Luck Phrases Night Vision

Author:Brian Eno

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