"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics."

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Gabriel Marcel

#Mathematics Quotes #Perfume Quotes

“We have become a nation of Kodachrome, Nikon, Instamatic addicts. But we haven't yet developed a clear idea of the ethics of picture-taking. ... Where do we get the right to bring other people home in a canister? Where did we lose the right to control our image?”
“There is, quite literally, nothing to understand.”
“I've been a New Yorker for ten years, and the only people who are nice to us turn out to be Moonies.”
“I have a lot of real life experience with hustling and doing stupid stuff.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. May 29, 2003.
“â€¦but Sassenachâ€”I am the true home of your heart, and I know that.â€ He lifted my hands to his mouth and kissed my upturned palms, one and then the other, his breath warm and his beard-stubble soft on my fingers. â€œI have loved others, and I do love many, Sassenachâ€”but you alone hold all my heart, whole in your hands,â€ he said softly. â€œAnd you know that.”
“To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.”
“Ground Zero Mosque supporters: doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, pls refudiate.”
“Who speaks the truth stabs falsehood to the heart.”

Source : James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.116

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