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“Experience by itself is not science.”
Source : "Pure Phenomenology: Its Method and Its Field of Investigation". Inaugural Lecture at Freiburg im Breisgau, May 3, 1917.
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“Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart”
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“I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.”
Source : "Kyle Dunnigan on the commercial futility of 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas'". Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. December 10, 2013. 
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“The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.”
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“The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.”
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“The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.”
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“I've always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.”
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“When I auditioned actors I never make them act. I choose a long symphony, then I tell them to sit down and I play the symphony for them. Then I sit and I look at them. I always pick a piece of music that has up and downs, very dramatic parts, very quiet parts and really sensitive parts so that it can produce different emotions.”
