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"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."
"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
"I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason."
"Religion is a distraction from true education."
"For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating."
"Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto."
"What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you're in it."
"Refusing to listen to him any longer, Julian backs up. 'Whenever you realize working together is in Summer's best interest, come find me, Boy Scout. Until then, I'll just pretend you don't exist. Then he walks away.Gage glares at Julian's retreating form. His hand scrapes through his hair as he fumes. A guttural roar of rage crawls up his throat, and he kicks the sand.Damn him and his stupid logic. He's right. And Gage knows he's right. But that doesn't mean he has to like it."
"Emotion,' she told him, 'is not a reliable guide for our words and actions.'There you are wrong,' he said. 'Deep, true emotion is our surest guide. We make our greatest mistake when we allow our heads to rules ours hearts.'Emotion is our human weakness.,' she said, 'reason our strength.'And love,' he said, 'is our destiny."
"Man cannot survive except through his mind. He comes on earth unarmed. His brain is his only weapon. Animals obtain food by force. man had no claws, no fangs, no horns, no great strength of muscle. He must plant his food or hunt it. To plant, he needs a process of thought. To hunt, he needs weapons,and to make weapons - a process of thought. From this simplest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and we have comes from a single attribute of man -the function of his reasoning mind."
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"However, the thought hit me that this was a pretty pathetic way to kick the bucket - being accidentally poisoned during a photo shoot, of all things - and I started weeping at the idiocy of it all."
"What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?"
"A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding."
"Let me be very honest and just say that if any airline would let me take the violin and the laptop on board I would fly that airline all the time."
"And apparently things like a Vindaloo curry are out for the rest of my life, or at least a long time."
"Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong."
"There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered."
"I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me."
"Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality."
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