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Robert Green Ingersoll

"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."

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"Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is happiness with a steady pulse."

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"When can you understand that the music you play is very good? It is when people look at you but see no one, no one but the music!"

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"As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music."

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Amber Hurdle

"Music is the melody whose text is the world."

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"If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."

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"To understand fully the importance of music, you must try to image a world without music! Such a world would be a world of hopelessness and boredom!"

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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."

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"So when a man surrenders to the sound of music and lets its sweet, soft, mournful strains, which we have just described, be funnelled into his soul through his ears, and gives up all his time to the glamorous moanings of song, the effect at first on his energy and initiative of mind, if he has any, is to soften it as iron is softened in a furnace, and made workable instead of hard and unworkable: but if he persists and does not break the enchantment, the next stage is that it melts and runs, till the spirit has quite run out of him and his mental sinews (if I may so put it) are cut, and he has become what Homer calls "a feeble fighter"."

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Amber Hurdle

"Harpists spend half their life tuning and the other half playing out of tune."

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"Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies."

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"If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith."
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"It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense."
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"The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others."
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"Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell."
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