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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1386)

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Neither the true nor the false roots are always real sometimes they are imaginary that is, while we can always imagine as many roots for each equation as I have assigned, yet there is not always a definite quantity corresponding to each root we have imagined.
Rene Descartes
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A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.
Rene Descartes
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Now since in so many Things they... agree, what can be more probable than that in others they agree too and that the other Planets are as beautiful and as well stock'd with Inhabitants as the Earth? Or what shadow of Reason can there be why they should not?
Christiaan Huygens
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In Europe we have the loss of self motif clearly illustrated in the whirl dances of the Russians sects of the Molokani in Armenia....All the countries that bordered the Meditteranean in ancient times, and the less remote sections of Asia as well, appear to have had whirl dances.
Curt Sachs
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We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races distant and nations different from us. Nothing should be dearer to the seeker of truth than the truth itself, and there is no deterioration of the truth, nor belittling either of one who speaks it or conveys it
Al-Kindi
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Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.
Johannes Kepler
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Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
Saint Augustine
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The flesh does not by its own virtue purify, but is purified by virtue of the Word by which it was assumed, when 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us' (Jn. 1:14).
Saint Augustine
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Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
Saint Augustine
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The different sorts of madness are innumerable.
Avicenna
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes
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Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Each moment presents what happens.
John Cage
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Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
Saint Augustine
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
Saint Augustine
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What do I love when I love my God?
Saint Augustine
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When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.
Pythagoras
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The playthings of our elders are called business.
Saint Augustine
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Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.
Saint Augustine
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Ships and sails proper for the heavenly air should be fashioned. Then there will also be people, who do not shrink from the dreary vastness of space.
Johannes Kepler
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