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I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people. ↗

— Elliott Carter

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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements. ↗

— Thomas Cochrane

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This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

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Telephones are a virtual necessity - not a luxury - and the revenues collected by this tax flow into the general fund. But this once temporary tax remains and costs American taxpayers, our small businesses and families almost $6 billion dollars a year. ↗

— Mike Fitzpatrick

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Good parties create a temporary youthfulness. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past. ↗

— George Crumb

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They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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