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Protection against the influence of the devil comes through the gospel of Jesus Christ. It is the good news that Jesus Christ has made a perfect Atonement for mankind.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Good
News
Protection
Christ
Good News
Made
Devil
Atonement
Perfect
Through
Gospel
Influence
Against
Mankind
Jesus
Jesus Christ
At a time when many churches throughout the world are experiencing significant decreases in numbers, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - though small in comparison with many others - is one of the fastest growing churches in the world. As of September 2013, the Church has more than 15 million members around the world.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Time
World
Christ
Church
September
Others
Churches
Though
Members
Significant
More
Small
Throughout
Around
Saints
Than
Experiencing
Many
Growing
Comparison
Million
Fastest
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Numbers
None of us is quite as Christlike as we know we should be.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Know
None
Quite
Us
Should
It is my conviction that those who disregard the reality of Heaven will ultimately find themselves on the wrong side of history.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
History
Reality
Will
Conviction
Side
Those
Find
Wrong
Wrong Side
Ultimately
Heaven
Themselves
Who
Disregard
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Dieter Rams
Good
Great
Design
Memorable
Something
Making
Intelligible
Meaningful
As designers, we have a great responsibility.
Dieter Rams
Great
Responsibility
Great Responsibility
Designers
I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.
Dieter Rams
Wonderful
Inspiring
Catastrophe
New
Like
Still
York
New York
There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.
Dieter Rams
Architecture
Our
Bad
More
Look
How
Lot
Decades
Next
Should
Landscape
Need
I don't like computers. I still like to do my drawings by hand.
Dieter Rams
Drawings
Computers
Like
Still
Hand
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.
Dieter Rams
Way
Comprehensible
Products
Designed
Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.
Dieter Rams
People
Design
Dominate
Role
Should
Help
Help People
Things
Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.
Dieter Rams
Future
Important
Important Things
Things
Spectacular
The biotechnology wave is similar to the information technology wave of the 1980s and 1990s.
Dietmar Hopp
Technology
Wave
Similar
Information
Information Technology
Biotechnology
In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Life
My Life
Important
Every
Think
Our
Case
Fact
Instrument
Occupied
Important Role
Role
Artist
In Fact
Whether
Should
Element
Play
Playing
Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Today
Mirror
Own
Duty
Other
Our
Alive
Admittedly
Still
Era
Hand
Up
Artists
Hold
Really
Works
Lives
Rather, I believe that it is very good, if, with the aid of his songs, we can be reminded, among other things, of the social conditions under which Schubert had to work.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Work
Good
Believe
Aid
Other
Rather
Had
Songs
Reminded
Schubert
His
Conditions
Very
Which
Social
Social Conditions
Among
Things
But, on the other hand, if Schubert were alive today, he would find even richer fields to plow.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Today
Other
Alive
Plow
Would
Find
He
Schubert
Were
Hand
Fields
Richer
Even
The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
First
Single
Bit
Melody
Out
Born
Composition
Entire
Poem
Overall
Perhaps
Also
Line
Text
Form
Even
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publish
Everything
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
Wrote
Schubert
Believed
Ever
Need
Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Life
Speak
Sense
Thinking
Others
Minds
Way
He
Toward
Longer
Himself
Causing
His
His Way
End
Behalf
Them
Speaking
Now
Which is why, in my lieder concerts, I always strove, when possible, to sing only the works of a single composer, so that the audience could be gradually drawn into a particular creative genius' way of thinking, and could follow him.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Creative
Genius
Single
Thinking
Way
Drawn
Possible
Follow
Composer
Only
Could
Particular
Sing
Him
Concerts
Audience
Always
Gradually
Which
Creative Genius
Works
Why
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
You
Opportunity
Mind
Three
Lose
Think
Way
Composer
Only
Songs
Since
Most
Pieces
Another
Quite
After
Little
Clusters
Then
Your
Brief
Four
In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
You
Mood
Atmosphere
Could
Main
Also
Schubert
Romantic
Regard
Romanticism
Describe
It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
You
First
Out
Seem
Through
Clear
Openings
Normal
Orchestra
Different
Break
Dough
Routine
All music has to speak in some form or other.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Music
Speak
Other
Some
Form
It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Music
People
Breath
Make
Desirable
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