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Without the music to shout over, few people bothered saying anything. (Remarking on a power cut while in a bar in the Dominican Republic)

— Mark Kurlansky A Continent of Islands: Searching for the Caribbean Destiny (1992)

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All revolutions are to some degree about money.

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If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod—the common fish. But it has among its predators man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

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Politics and nationalism often play far greater roles than conservation in the decision-making process.

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To a cod, ocean floors mean safety. That is why they were rendered commercially extinct by bottom draggers.

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It is harder to kill off fish than mammals. But after 1,000 years of hunting the Atlantic cod, we know that it can be done.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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