"All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition."

-- Bertrand Russell

#Historical Quotes #Progress Quotes #Important Quotes

“I think of all music as existing in the substance of the air itself. It is the composer's task to order and make sense of sound, in time and space, to communicate something about being alive through music.”
“Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.”
“When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.”
“After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine...”
“How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.”
“Once the business data have been centralized and integrated, the value of the database is greater than the sum of the preexisting parts.”
“I always do makeup touch-ups myself, especially for blood, wounds, and dirt. It saves so much time.”
“Who is ready to be a truly independent representative of Minnesota? Who is free of entangling alliances and big money that allows them to represent? What do we need -- that sort of person who can truly independently represent Minnesota, or something else?.”

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