Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions. - Jacques Barzun

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You're basically the sum of all the experiences you've ever had, and they're sort of shaken up in you and reproduced in the things you create, and that includes seeing movies.

Jacques Barzun

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

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Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

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Regarding the idea of race,. . no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?.

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To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

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To watch a football game is to be in a prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game. I don't wonder the spectators take to drink.

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