"To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel."

-- Maurice Ravel

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“If you wish to control others you must first control yourself”
“Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.”
“Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.”
“But the goal of the arts, culinary or otherwise, is not to increase our comfort. That is the goal of an easy chair.”

Source : Jeffrey Steingarten (2011). “The Man Who Ate Everything”, p.5, Vintage
“Research is a passion with me; it drives me; it is my relentless master.”

Source : Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research is a Passion with Me”, p.41, Dundurn
“No club moves me from Chelsea until Chelsea wants me to move because I want to be where I am loved.”
“Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the liberal mind. And it must always become more and more so: for though it is only of late, that it has been looked upon in that light, the great progress already made in Chymical knowledge, gives us a pleasant prospect of rich additions to it. The Science is now studied on solid and rational grounds. While our knowledge is imperfect, it is apt to run into error: but Experiment is the thread that will lead us out of the labyrinth.”
“Everything is in a state of flux, and this includes the world of Chess”

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