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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."

"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world."

"Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy."
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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."

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

"Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception."

"I'm very aware of what you're talking about as I was involved with the radio in Africa in the same period as I was doing Concrete - I was doing both at the same time."

"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."

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

"Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?"
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