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I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

~Eugene Chadbourne

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I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert.

~Eugene Ionesco

Topics: After Bottom Box Ceiling Chair Dessert Down Ears Eating Eyes Fingers Floor Great Head Jam Look Music Open Out Pillow Put Rug Sit Spread Ten Two Walk Wall While

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As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

~Eugene Kennedy

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As in the Divine Right of Kings, hierarchies invest those who preside at the top of their pyramidal structure with absolute power to rule over the lesser ranks that spread down like a marble staircase to the broad foundation stones of those with no power at all.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Absolute Absolute Power Broad Divine Down Foundation Invest Kings Lesser Like Marble Over Power Ranks Right Rule Spread Staircase Stones Structure Those Top Who

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In April, God speaks to us in the seas whose rhythmic murmuring fills our ears from a long way off. It was in April that the Titanic went down into the deep to lie like a slasher's victim, bleeding the 'debris field' - its passengers' personal possessions, the everyday things of everyman and everywoman - across the ocean's floor.

~Eugene Kennedy

Topics: Across April Bleeding Deep Down Ears Everyday Field Fills Floor God Lie Like Long Long Way Ocean Off Our Passengers Personal Possessions Rhythmic Seas Slasher Speaks Things Titanic Us Victim Way Whose

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Benedict's spending down his energy was a function of his fighting against the Space/Information Age's relentless pressure on the concept of hierarchy, the restoration of which he had, following John Paul II, made a central part of the program that has come to be known as the reform of the reform.

~Eugene Kennedy

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Even the greatest player of all times loses sets or is down in a match. It just shows that, you know, a win is never guaranteed. It shows all of us that we have to work for every point, fight for every point no matter what.

~Eugenie Bouchard

Topics: Down Even Every Fight Greatest Guaranteed Just Know Loses Match Matter Never Player Point Sets Shows Times Us Win Work You

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As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, and I wanted to do that too. And I told my family, I said, 'I'd like to go down and be like William Beebe,' and they said, 'Well, maybe you can take up typing and get to be the secretary of William Beebe or somebody like him.'

~Eugenie Clark

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When I walk down the street, even here in the U.S., they are always saying my catchphrases of my characters, and they shout at me with my catchphrases.

~Eugenio Derbez

Topics: Always Characters Down Even Here Me Saying Shout Street Walk

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In the story of Thetis and Achilles, it's clear this isn't really a safe environment. She's gone down to the River Styx - the dead are being ferried across in the background. There's something in this mythology that says that if you want invulnerability, if you want immortality, you pay a price.

~Eula Biss

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