Peter Haggett famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The sound of progress is perhaps the sound of plummeting hypotheses.
-- Peter Haggett -
The Place of Religion in Chicago is a clearly written account of a little-studied aspect of American landscape. Based on unique field surveys and supported by photographs, tables, and beautifully crafted maps, the book will form a lasting contribution to our understanding of an overlooked element of the American urban scene: the religious landscape of a major metropolis.
-- Peter Haggett
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A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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But even more: all at once the Jew also becomes liberal and begins to rave about the necessary progress of mankind.
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Progress is made by the improvement of people, not the improvement of machines.
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For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever.
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
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I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.
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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
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With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
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