A Quote by Krzysztof Penderecki
I have written many works to accompany Old Church Slavonic texts.
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I studied scriptural interpretation, which is more about how people get meaning out of texts, looking at stuff in the Old Testament - Muslims, Christians, Jews, different interpretations of the same texts.
I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.
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Not far from our house, and opposite the old church with the golden cross, stood a large building, even larger than the church, and having many towers.
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But before and after the Mongol upheaval, the Khazars sent many offshoots into the unsubdued Slavonic lands, helping ultimately to build up the great Jewish centers of eastern Europe.
Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the nine or ten month old on his rounds. It is probably many years since you last studied the underside of a dining room chair. The ten month old will study this marvel with as much concentration and reverence as a tourist in the Cathedral of Chartres.
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