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What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.


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MATTHEW ARNOLD This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
MATTHEW ARNOLD With aching hands and bleeding feet We dig and heap, lay stone on stone; We bear the burden an...
MATTHEW ARNOLD What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Her cabin'd ample spirit, It fluttered and fail'd for breath; Tonight it doth inherit Th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
MATTHEW ARNOLD Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called th...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prev...
MATTHEW ARNOLD The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
MATTHEW ARNOLD One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Thy sum of duty let two words contain, (O may they graven in thy heart remain!) Be humble and ...
MATTHEW PRIOR They talk most who have the least to say.
MATTHEW PRIOR We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
MATTHEW ARNOLD Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
MATTHEW ARNOLD [Oxford] Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs and unpopular names and impossible loyalties.
MATTHEW ARNOLD The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
MATTHEW ARNOLD If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: "Eternity, be thou ...
MATTHEW ARNOLD Women were created from the rib of man to be beside him, not from his head to top him, nor from his ...
MATTHEW HENRY Do we believe housing is a right and that affordable housing is part of what it should mean to be an...
MATTHEW DESMOND I don't think that you can address poverty unless you address the lack of affordable housing in ...
MATTHEW DESMOND The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a fam...
MATTHEW DESMOND We can start with housing, the sturdiest of footholds for economic mobility. A national affordable h...
MATTHEW DESMOND Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.
MATTHEW HENRY Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the tri...
MATTHEW HENRY In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY Like ministers of information, consultants condense the message, smooth out the dissonances, unify t...
MATTHEW STEWART Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart. How hard thy yoke, how cruel thy dart. Those escape your ange...
MATTHEW PRIOR