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Music Theorist Inspirational Quotes (1384)

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The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.
Leon Battista Alberti
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Thou shalt prove That beauty is no beauty without love.
Thomas Campion
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The Devil invented gambling.
Saint Augustine
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One day when I was studying with Schoenberg, he pointed out the eraser on his pencil and said, 'This end is more important than the other.' After twenty years I learned to write directly in ink.
John Cage
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Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
Saint Augustine
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Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
Saint Augustine
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A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.
Saint Augustine
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Reason deceives us conscience, never.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Love, and do what you will. If you keep silence, do it out of love. If you cry out, do it out of love. If you refrain from punishing, do it out of love.
Saint Augustine
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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.
Saint Augustine
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Those people who don't have any voluntary control, or hands, can work with the physical movement that they can do - whatever voluntary movement they have, even the slightest .
Pauline Oliveros
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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.
Saint Augustine
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I believe only and alone in the service of Jesus Christ. In him is all refuge and solace.
Johannes Kepler
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An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage
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Out of the work comes the work.
John Cage
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For things remain possible, even if God does not choose them. Indeed, even if God does not will something to exist, it is possible for it to exist, since, by its nature, it could exist if God were to will it to exist.
Gottfried Leibniz
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Saint Augustine
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To ask the proper question is half of knowing.
Roger Bacon
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?
Saint Augustine
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I attempt from love's sickness to fly.
Henry Purcell
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Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.
Pythagoras
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