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If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.: Gurdjieff
Music . . . can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.: Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.: Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.: John Locke (1632 - 1704)
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - 1851)
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.: William Henry Channing
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.: Unknown
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.: Unknown

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