"Music is geometry in time."

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Source : "I am a Composer". Book by Arthur Honegger, 1951.

Arthur Honegger

#Music Is Quotes #Geometry Quotes

“The apex of my civic pride and personal contentment was reached on the bright September morning when I entered the public school.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.136, Courier Corporation
“Photography is a tool for dealing with things everybody knows about but isnâ€™t attending to. My photographs are intended to represent something you donâ€™t see.”
“The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.”
“O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of the nuclei of uranium and thorium under neutron bombardment. Thus they demonstrated the production of nuclei of barium, lanthanum, strontium, yttrium, and, more recently, of xenon and caesium. It can be shown by simple considerations that this type of nuclear reaction may be described in an essentially classical way like the fission of a liquid drop, and that the fission products must fly apart with kinetic energies of the order of hundred million electron-volts each.”
“There are moments of clarity daily. They open me up with a breath and keep me calm. They feed me the answers. And they hold me lovingly. They are gospelstiches. My childish ***** has got to let them heal. This feud Iâ€™m having with myself isnâ€™t even original. But it is thick and rooted. Hereâ€™s to today, slowing down, suspending judgment, and breast strokes through chaos.”
“If people but knew their own religion, how tolerant they would become, and how free from any grudge against the religion of others.”
“They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars.”
“God did not create a human family made up of segregated, dissociated, mutually independent members. No; he would have them all united by the bond of total love of Him and consequent self-dedication to assisting each other to maintain that bond intact.”

Source : "America", Vol. 100, by America Press, (p. 121), 1958.

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