"Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man"

-- Hanshan

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“There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.”

Source : " Milton Berle diagnosed with cancerous tumor", www.cnn.com. April 25, 2001.
“Shower your unconditional love even if it might be a stranger”
“If I am an empress, he is the only man worthy of being my emperor.”
“But now, instead of discussion and argument, brute force rises up to the rescue of discomfited error, and crushes truth and right into the dust. 'Might makes right,' and hoary folly totters on in her mad career escorted by armies and navies.”

Source : Adin Ballou (1848). “Christian non-resistance, in all its important bearings, illustrated and defended”, p.87
“I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.”

Source : "Schoenberg: A Critical Biography". Book by Willi Reich, p. 34, 1971.
“nothing is more like truth than a lie, don't you find?”
“I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it . Because there is, of course, always the desire, the hope, that they are not two separate worlds, sound and silence, but that they become each other, that only our hearing fails.”
“It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.”

Source : "The Pretender". Interview with Kelefa Sanneh, www.newyorker.com. January 5, 2009.

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