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• Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.

  Plutarch

  Death, Men, Funeral

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• Everything is completely democratic in this band so far and that is the way that we would like to keep it.

  Adam Rich

  Band, Way, Democratic

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• But I don't think the Democratic Party is at eye level with the middle class.

  Charles Schumer

  Party, Eye, Thinking

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• The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

  W. H. Auden

  Birthday, Time, Money

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• Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word.

  Eugenio Montale

  Art, Becoming, Democratic

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• The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.

  Bobby Darin

  Running, Party, California

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• While there continues to be differences, the important point is that all citizens and elected officials use democratic and legal avenues for solving those differences.

  Boris Trajkovski

  Differences, Important, Citizens

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• Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Party, Thinking, Today

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• There's no scientific definition. A hymn... is a song of praise to God. I think there were three real goals with our hymns that made them seem more in line with traditional classical hymn writing than with the modern worship movement and differentiate us slightly...

  Keith Getty

  Song, Real, Writing

  "Composer/performer Keith Getty is celebrating an Irish Christmas at venues across the USA". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. December 5, 2014.

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• And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Shame, Brothers Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.107, Macmillan

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• A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning.

  Victor Hugo

  Children, Profound, Bird

  Victor Hugo, Frank Lee Benedict (1874). “Ninety-three”, p.238, Dawson Bros.

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• Let us quake before the great Spirit, Who is my God, Who has made me know God, Who is God there above, and Who forms God here: almighty, imparting manifold gifts, Him Whom the holy choir hymns, Who brings life to those in heaven and on earth, and is enthroned on high, coming from the Father, the divine force, self-commandeered; He is not a Child (for there is one worthy Child of the One who is best), nor is He outside the unseen Godhead, but of identical honor.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Children, Father

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• Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

  James Montgomery

  Should Have, Unity, Progress

  "The Christian Psalmist; Or, Hymns, Selected and Original, with an Introductory Essay". Book by James Montgomery, 1825.

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• But now I have learned to listen to silence. To hear its choirs singing the song of ages, chanting the hymns of space, and disclosing the secrets of eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Song, Space, Silence

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• The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Christian, Israel, Psalms

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• I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? I read the King James Bible, as all English writers should. And when I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

  Mark Haddon

  Religious, Atheist, Atheism

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• After the tragedy of 9/11 we were on our way to becoming a fledgling Matriotic society until our leaders jumped on the bandwagon of inappropriate and misguided vengeance to send our young people to die and kill in two countries that were no threat to the USA or to our way of life. The neocons exploited patriotism to fulfill their goals of imperialism and plunder. This sort of patriotism begins when we enter kindergarten and learn the nationalist 'Pledge of Allegiance'. It transcends all sense when we are taught the 'Star Spangled Banner', a hymn to war.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Stars, War

  "Matriotism" by Cindy Sheehan, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2006.

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• But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.

  Theodore Bikel

  Children, Israel, Differences

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• As we celebrate Black History Month we should be grateful for the achievements they made and inspired by their legacies to continue their work.

  Marty Meehan

  Grateful, Achievement, Black History

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• Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

  Aeschylus

  Sacrifice, Offering, Heaven

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.339

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• Democratic leaders always seem to blame America first.

  Ken Mehlman

  America, Leader, Firsts

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• The security of the United States, which is so dependent on having accurate and timely intelligence, is not a Republican or a Democratic issue.

  Saxby Chambliss

  Issues, United States, Republican

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• I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Running, Thinking, Sheep

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• Hate engenders hate. Hate spreads to nations, and from this cause we have devastating wars. In the contemplation of these wars and their origins there is something humiliating to our human race. No Hymn of Hate can ever be a paean of humanity.

  Arthur Alfred Lynch

  Hate, War, Race

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• There are two kinds of music. One comes from the strings of a guitar, the other from the strings of the heart. One sound comes from a chamber orchestra, the other from the beating of the heart's chamber. One comes from an instrument of graphite and wood, the other from an organ of flesh and blood. This loftier music I speak of tonight is more pleasing than the notes of the most gifted composers, more moving than a marching band, more harmonious than a thousand voices joined in hymn and more powerful than all the world's percussion instruments combined. That sweet sound of love.

  Michael Jackson

  Sweet, Powerful, Moving

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