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“Mathematicians boast of their exacting achievements, but in reality they are absorbed in mental acrobatics and contribute nothing to society.”

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Ogyu Sorai

Japanese philosopher born on March 21, 1666, and died on February 28, 1728. Ogyu Sorai is renowned for his studies in Confucian philosophy and his influence on Japanese educational reforms. more

“It's a risk-reward thing. If I do go out and try and play and get hurt again, then I'm definitely out. I've got no chance to go. If I'm ready, then great. It's getting better. I've been doing a lot more in the last couple of days. I've got a day off (on Wednesday) and then hope to come back in on Thursday and really see where I am at and test it out. Hopefully I'm going to play this weekend but, in reality, we'll see.”

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Author:Steve Ralston

“When Delaware State University was founded in 1890, it was not by choice, but by social reality.”

States Reality Choices Social University Delaware

Author:Michael N. Castle

“We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love the prep school manners, the aristocratic calm, the Skull and Bones mystery, the dappled lawns stretching before New England summer homes. How else can be explained the Bush vs. Kerry match-up that confronts us this year?”

“Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.”

Knows Art Reality Happens Literature Stage Art Is Our Society Scrutiny

Author:Edward Bond

“The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.”

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Author:Cecilia Bartoli

“It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.”

Moving Song Music Singers

Author:Pete Townshend

“Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.”

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Author:David Byrne

“When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."”

Children Hands Seems Faces Sin Music Lays My Children

Author:Sidney Lanier

“A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it.”

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Author:Marie Daulne

“Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.”

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Author:Zoltan Kodaly

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