Power metal ♥ ABBA, Ария, Catharsis, Эпидемия, Rhapsody of Fire, Мельница, Metallica, Beyoncé, Pentatonix

Titanic, Troy, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Sabrina (starring Julia Ormond), Pretty Woman, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Большая прогулка, The Thomas Crown Affair, Dead Poets Society, Anna and the King, The First Knight, Дом летающих кинжалов, Сибирский цирюльник, Жестокий романс, Война и мир (реж. Сергей Бондарчук), Семнадцать мгновений весны, Офицеры, В бой идут одни «старики», Покровские ворота, Большая перемена, Старый Новый год, Кавказская пленница, Иван Васильевич меняет профессию, Три плюс два, Девчата, Питер FM, H2O — Just Add Water!

“Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)” (Jerome K. Jerome), “The Hound of the Baskervilles” и весь остальной «Шерлок Холмс» (Arthur Conan Doyle), «Пегий пёс, бегущий краем моря» (Чингиз Айтматов), «Несвятые святые» (архимандрит Тихон), Слава Сэ, рассказы А. П. Чехова

Что? Где? Когда?, Белая студия • YouTube channels: ещёнепознер, Virginia Bēowulf, TED, Микитко сын Алексеев

Practice makes perfect.

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Think globally — act locally.

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The world will respect you as much as you respect yourself.

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You don’t have to move mountains. Simply fall in love with and embrace life. Be a tornado of happiness, gratitude and acceptance. You will change the world by just being warm, kind-hearted and good.

Kiki Vhyce

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All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time;
Some with massive deeds and great,
Some with ornaments of rhyme.

Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Builders”

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«Спасибо, сын. Тебе отвечу кратко.
Одна из наших дедовских примет
Гласит: коль нет на кладбище порядка,
Порядка и в самом ауле нет».

Расул Гамзатов, «Брат»

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Самая опасная ложь — слегка извращённая истина.

Георг Лихтенберг

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Бог нас всегда окружает теми людьми, с которыми нам необходимо исцелиться от своих недостатков.

прп. Силуан Афонский

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In your breath are magic spells
Which wisp and curl on every word,
And as they waltz, your rhythmic voice
Becomes the sweetest sound I’ve heard.
There is such phonetic grace
In every phatic word you place,
But should your lips eclipse my name,
And let it slip with warm acclaim,
Or better yet, in passions flame,
Should you with love for me proclaim,
Then science to its knees will fall
As air will hold no oxygen,
Nor argon, neither nitrogen,
But beauty, magic. That is all.

Sam Hammond

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She was a pale, ethereal creature, with wide, spiritual blue eyes and a wealth of golden hair.

<...> Here was intellectual life, he thought, and here was beauty, warm and wonderful as he had never dreamed it could be. <...> Here was something to live for, to win to, to fight for—ay, and die for. The books were true. There were such women in the world. She was one of them. She lent wings to his imagination, and great, luminous canvases spread themselves before him whereon loomed vague, gigantic figures of love and romance, and of heroic deeds for woman’s sake—for a pale woman, a flower of gold. And through the swaying, palpitant vision, as through a fairy mirage, he stared at the real woman, sitting there and talking of literature and art.

Jack London, “Martin Eden”

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I was only a boy, but the image of my father holding the woman he loved for the last time has remained with me throughout the years. It is always surprising how small a part of life is taken up by meaningful moments. Most of them, they are over before they start, although they cast a light on the future and make the person who originated them unforgettable. Anna had shined such a light on Siam.

“Anna and the King”

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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

Michelangelo

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Any scientist who can’t explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan.

Kurt Vonnegut

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You should never take more than you give
In the circle of life!

Elton John, “Circle of Life”

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there is
nothing left
to worry about
the sun and her flowers are here.

rupi kaur

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…Not just a speck in the universe,
Not just some words in a Bible verse,
You are the living word,
You’re part of something way bigger!..

Beyoncé, “Bigger”