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Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - August 11, 2024
The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No.'
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Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)  
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
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Wernher von Braun (1912 - 1977)  
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965), Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952  
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)  
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