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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
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"When you don't come closer to the goal and don't make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain."
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"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."
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"Nothing happens until something moves."
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"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
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"The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination."
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"Failure is only a step towards success."
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"Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so) was speech - and both are still dangerous to this day - but human beings would not be human without them."
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"If your country is governed by the most stupid people, it is vital for you to continue going up personally while your nation and your country is going down because your country will inevitably collapse and it will be in need of people like you, people who managed to improve themselves while everything else was falling and deteriorating!"
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"Respect is the lifeblood of progress, and the safe harbour of humanity's great aspirations."
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"When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically."
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"This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous."
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"In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences."
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"I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music."
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"There will have to be times when I'm not conducting because I'm composing. I haven't solved that problem, and perhaps I never will."
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"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect."
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"Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other."
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"The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster."
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"The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music."
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"With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard."
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