"Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all."

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Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I don't care how much people understand what it is that I'm doing, except if they're players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to be moved by the music. If you're not moved by the music, then everything else falls away. You're not interested in the text, you're not interested in how it was done, and you're not interested in interviewing the composer and all the rest of it.”

Source : Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.
“Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision.”
“There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.”
“From the beginning however, there was resistence to Portuguese mastery over Kotte. While Dharmapala was alive there were two major revolts, one led by Akaragama Appuhamy in 1594, and the other by Edirille rala in 1594-96.”

Source : "A History of Sri Lanka". Book by K. M. De Silva, 1981.
“This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.”
“My wife and children are the greatest force that keeps me sober and strong.”
“Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.”
“Once you've got a bull terrier, you never want another dog. I've got six bull terriers, a rottweiler and a bulldog.”

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