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Arnold Schoenberg

"In fact, the influence of Schoenberg may be overwhelming on his followers, but the significance of his art is to be identified with influences of a more subtle kind-not the system, but the aesthetic, of his art. I am quite conscious of the fact that my Chansons madÃ©casses are in no way Schoenbergian, but I do not know whether I ever should have been able to write them had Schoenberg never written."

Source : "Ravel: Man and Musician". Book by Arbie Orenstein, p. 126, 1975.

Arnold Schoenberg

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“Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work.”
“I produce a lot of my artwork in Germany.”
“I've come to understand and to believe that each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. I believe that for every person on the planet. I think if somebody tells a lie, they're not just a liar. I think if somebody takes something that doesn't belong to them, they're not just a thief. I think even if you kill someone, you're not just a killer. And because of that, there's this basic human dignity that must be respected by law.”

Source : Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.21, Spiegel & Grau
“The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.”
“Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up; we forget they are also growing old.”
“Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it.Â So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government.Â Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political, and religious order whichÂ finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God.”
“Your calling isnâ€™t something that somebody can tell you about. Itâ€™s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”
“I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is, in fact, good, what is all this death I see? And if God is gentle, what is all this suffering I see? I've found some of the answers in Eastern religion. It explained my Christianity to me. Good and evil are the same thing. You can't have one without the other. It's the balance, it's the temperance of things.”

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