"From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the most artful things developed... the principle of repetition!"

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Source : Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

Anton Webern

#Simple Quotes #Order Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.”
“I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.”
“A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.”

Source : 1977 In the NewYork Times, 2 Oct.
“Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always.”
“I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.”
“Every bullet has its billet.”

Source : "Oxford Dictionary of Quotations". Book edited by Elizabeth Knowles, 2004.
“We see something change in our climate and we blame ourselves ... I don't think we understand what happens. We can watch it happen on the (climate) models, we know it happens, but we don't know for sure how it happens.”
“I have sought to offer humanists a detailed analysis of a technology sufficiently magnificent and spiritual to convince them that the machines by which they are surrounded are cultural artifacts worthy of their attention and respect.”

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