#ode

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre. ↗

— Samantha Barks

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You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

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As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro. ↗

— Dave Barry

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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

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I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. ↗

— Michael Behe

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