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Pierre Schaeffer

"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."

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"The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change."

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Amber Hurdle

"Anyone that refuses to grow will remain in the past. It is a demand of life."

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"Losing your job gives you the opportunity to make your life count."

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"Make a change of your steps when necessary. "Status quo" is the court room where change is kept on trial for long, delaying the verdict. Make a change and achieve your dreams. Rule your case with victory."

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"But it is not your own Shire,' said Gildor. 'Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."

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Amber Hurdle

"When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less."

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Amber Hurdle

"If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you."

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"When what one does, reps, or 'spits', repetitively, is foul or beastly - one summons spiritual undertakers to dine on fleshly parasites. In various forms, nature's law purges all that becomes wasteful. Change your game, or the game will change you."

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Amber Hurdle

"Since when has corruption everywhere, homes, streets, offices, become a Nigerian factor."

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"There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time."

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"For transformation to be successful, we the people must first liberate ourselves and our brethren from the clutches of religion."

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"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality."
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"Morally, the world is both better and worse than it was. We are worse off than in the middle ages, or the 17th and 18th centuries, in that we have the atomic menace."
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"The moment at which music reveals its true nature is contained in the ancient exercise of the theme with variations. The complete mystery of music is explained right there."
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"Barbarians always think of themselves as the bringers of civilization."
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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"It's ridiculous that time and time again we need a radioactive cloud coming out of a nuclear power-station to remind us that atomic energy is extraordinarily dangerous."
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"The impressionists, Debussy, Faure, in France, did take a few steps forward."
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