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“Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.”

Matter Today Past Creation Jazz Mere Instinct Thoughtful

Book:The Duke Ellington Reader

Source: The Duke Ellington Reader

“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”

Stills Age Past Found Stars Stage Blind Mere Suggestions Limitless Expanse Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Author:Novalis

“The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.”

Knows Humans Reality Past Dies Asking Mere Busy Absence Meaningful Denial Preserves Immortality Mortality Woe Defiance Denial Of Death

Author:Zygmunt Bauman

“The Future is distant, like the Past, and therefore sentimental. The mere element "Past" must be retained to sponge up and absorb our melancholy. Everything absent, remote, requiring projection in the veiled weakness of the mind, is sentimental.”

Mind Past Elements Weakness Mere Melancholy Sentimental Projection Absent Sponges

Book:Blast

Source: Blast

“Tears came to my eyes when I read of a mere boy in one of our eastern cities who noticed a vagrant asleep on a sidewalk and who then went to his own room, retrieved his own pillow, and placed it beneath the head of that one whom he knew not. Perhaps there came from the precious past the welcome words: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me' (Matt. 25:40).”

Done Eye Past Rooms Cities Boys Tears Mere Welcome Eastern Pillow Brethren Sidewalk Vagrants

Author:Thomas S. Monson