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The subject matter covered in Carmina stays pretty basic: love, lust, the pleasures of drinking and the heightened moods evoked by springtime. These primitive and persistently relevant themes are nicely camouflaged by the Latin and old German texts, so the listener can actually feign ignorance while listening to virtually X-rated lyrics. (Veni Veni Venias! Come, come come now!)The music itself toggles between huge forces and a single voice, juxtaposing majesty and intimacy with ease... Carl Orff
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Science is only a Latin word for knowledge Carl Sagan
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English grammar is so complex and confusing for the one very simple reason that its rules and terminology are based on Latin, a language with which it has precious little in common. Bill Bryson
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You just don't see alternative Latin performers on TV. Nic Harcourt
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Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings William Shakespeare
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We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men. Donald Johanson
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness. Xavier Niel
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I would say that the U.S. has overlooked Latin America. Their priorities have always been somewhere else. And that is a problem and that is a mistake. Sebastian Pinera
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English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background. David Crystal
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Japanese is a very strange foreign language for European people.
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To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting. Giles Foden
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians. Zubin Mehta
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Boston has a lot of European qualities to it, and one of them is the charm of its above-ground trollies. David Walton
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The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others. Bernard Berenson
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If we compare Europe with other continents, it is marked out as [another] persecuting continent. Bertrand Russell
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The American and European positions have got to move. It is about making new proposals on agriculture. Gordon Brown
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We have already taken all steps necessary. Once it has touched European soil, then we have raised all the measures we should take,
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We have the Vodafone contract, we are back in Europe and we will make sure the mix is proper with success on the pitch. Peter Kenyon
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The hometown economic elite - rich local families or individuals whom people used to praise or revile, read about in the society pages, and gossip about incessantly - disappeared from most American cities decades ago. Timothy Noah
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I don't think the Internet has replaced cities in any significant way, nor really could it. Cities are dynamic - and deeply seductive for the people who flock there - because they broker all sorts of fantastic and useful connections, cultural and economic and social.
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I just think cities are unnatural, basically. I know there are people who live happily in them, and I have cities that I love, too. But it's a disaster that we have moved so far from nature. Alice Walker
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Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows. Gore Vidal
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No city embraced privatization more eagerly than Chicago, where I live. Bethany McLean
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Des Moines is like your typical American city; it's just these concentric circles of malls, built outward from the city.
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I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.
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We could have other cities coming to us with similar requests in the future.
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We have very strict rules about what we can and can't do in terms of the USOC. What we can't do right now is lobby, ... The odds are that if the rules had not been changed, all the cities would be talking to the IOC to get it to influence the USOC.