"My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter."

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Gyorgy Ligeti

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“We may never understand illnesses such as cancer. In fact, we may never cure it. But an ounce of prevention is worth more than a million pounds of cure.”
“Since I was a boy of five or six, I had it in my mind I would be a world boxing champion.”
“Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.”
“Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far we've come; it's a way of visiting an earlier self.”
“I am now about to set seriously to work upon preparing for the press an account of my theory of Logic and Probabilities which in its present state I look upon as the most valuable if not the only valuable contribution that I have made or am likely to make to Science and the thing by which I would desire if at all to be remembered hereafter.”

Source : Letter to William Thomson, January 2, 1851.
“There weren't a lot of people kind of manning the barricades in the sixties and looking up their genealogy.”
“Fifteen hundred years ago, Constantine, who murdered his own wife and children, started the Christian religion.”
“You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.”

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