"All of our dignity consists in thought. Let us endeavor then to think well; this is the principle of morality."

-- Blaise Pascal

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“They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?”
“I would not want you to suppose that my rejection of Allen Forte's theory of pitch-class sets implies a rejection of the notion that there can be such a thing as a pitch-class set. It is only when one defines everything in terms of pitch-class sets that the concept becomes meaningless.”

Source : George Perle (1990). “The Listening Composer”, p.67, Univ of California Press
“There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.”
“If the Palestinians took up arms, went into Israel and killed all the Jews, it'd be alright”
“Whether religion be true or false, it must be necessarily granted to be the only wise principle and safe hypothesis for a man to live and die by.”
“As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.”
“How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.”
“Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.”

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