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“The frequencies of the notes in a scale—do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do—sound to us like they’re rising in equal steps. But objectively their vibrational frequencies are rising by equal multiples. We perceive pitch logarithmically.”
Source : Steven Strogatz (2012). “The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Really, we don't relate our Atlanta setup to here. I feel like the shock [absorber] package will be different and the springs will certainly be different than Atlanta.”
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“I go to see the clothes [I designed] in the shops, and of course they're not perfect, and I see only the imperfections. But it doesn't mean it's a failure-you just think, I wish it could be better than this. Sometimes I cannot achieve what I really want to do in just one collection, so in the following collection I do it again. There are certain things I've been working on for three years.”
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“Sometimes I'll be channel surfing or something, and I'll see a glimpse of something, and I'll quickly turn the sound down, and then what I look at, that's an interesting movie. But it's not me who made it. It's whoever that guy I was 10 years ago who made it.”
Source : "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview With Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015. 
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“We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.”
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“I've never seen a postcard of my work in a museum.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Striving to achieve a dream is never a waste of time.”
Source : Félix J. Palma (2012). “The Map of Time: A Novel”, p.195, Simon and Schuster
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“And from the first time I picked up a basketball at age eight - I had a lot of difficulty when I first picked up a basketball, because I was a scrub - there were things that I liked about it.”
