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“Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.”

Life Ends Character Culture Nations Powerful Expression Instruments Accountability Ornaments Mould

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi, people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.”

People Important Stories Hands Together Social Moral Darkness Gone Television Listening Instruments Opera Dilemma Holding Hands Catharsis Watching Television Moral Dilemma Verdi Rossini

Author:Luciano Berio

“The art of beautiful motion is far and away the oldest. Before man learned how to use any instruments at all, he moved the most perfect instrument of all, his body. He did this with such abandon that the cultural history of prehistoric and ancient man is, for the most part, nothing but the history of the dance.”

Men Art Use Body Beautiful Perfect Instruments Moved Dance Ancient Abandon Prehistoric

Author:Gerard van der Leeuw

“There was a subtlety about Peggy Lee. It was powerful. There was a valuable use of space. Everything was not cluttered. Her voice was out front and was the key instrument.”

Use Voice Space Powerful Fronts Keys Instruments Valuable Clutter Subtlety

Author:Rita Coolidge

“Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).”

People Sometimes Use Christian Evil Instruments Ruins Providence Advancement Mischief Brethren

Book:The Mystery of Providence

Source: The Mystery of Providence

“I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.”

Wanted Father Tears Instruments Boyfriend Blunt

Author:Jay London

“Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.”

Doubt Instruments

Author:Marc Bloch

“CANNON, n. An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries.”

War Used Peace Instruments Boundaries Cannons Rectification

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“We are heirs of the ages because throughout the ages mankind has devised and fashioned new things, and step by step added new conquests to our domain in that incessant contest with nature which means life. But we are decadent heirs if we cannot use the instruments that the ages have put into our hands. The acquisition of these, in the largest scope, is education.”

Ifs Mean Use Hands Age Education Steps Mankind Instruments New Things Contests Conquest Domain Scope Acquisition Heirs Meaning Life Incessant

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“We have two main instruments: the mind and the heart. The mind finds it difficult to be happy, precisely because the mind consciously enjoys the sense of separativity. It is always judging and doubting the reality in others. This is the human mind, the ordinary physical mind, the earth-bound mind. But we also have the aspiring heart, the loving heart. This loving heart is free from insecurity, for it has already established its oneness with the rest of the world.”

World Mind Humans Heart Two Reality Earth Enjoy Difficult Doubt Judging Ordinary Instruments Bounds Oneness Insecurity Human Mind

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.”

Knows Feels Mean Grows Learning Wise Subjects Judging Instruments Faults Self Knowledge Wiser

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“No other acoustic instrument can match the piano's expressive range, and no electric instrument can match its mystery.”

Music Mystery Instruments Range Piano Electric Acoustics Expressive Playing Piano Piano Music Piano Playing

Author:Kenneth R. Miller

“The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.”

Young Names Social Rooms Music Instruments Excellence Prosperity Entertainment Drawing Piano Massive Devices Furniture Bourgeois Playing Piano Piano Music Piano Playing

Book:Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

Source: Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980

“A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.”

Men Mind Heart Doe Instruments Unity Flesh Separation Unified

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom.”

Philosophy Political Certain Doubt Economic Evolution Morality Instruments Liberation No Doubt Economic Systems Meaninglessness Creationism

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer has forgotten it, who should remember it, as the instrument of [the dance] art is the human body itself.”

Should Humans Art Body Remember Poet Truth Is Art Is Instruments Forgotten Painter Dancer Clothings Human Body Sculptors

Book:The Dance

Source: The Dance

“Even with the best of maps and instruments, we can never fully chart our journeys.”

Journey Instruments Strategy Maps

Author:Gail Pool

“The heart is a thousand stringed instrument that can only be tuned with love.”

Heart Thousand Instruments Famous Love

Author:Hafez

“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults”

Giving Children War Hate Force Expression Becoming Adults Hatred Slavery Instruments Killing Soldier Violent Compelled Child Soldier

Author:Olara Otunnu

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.”

Way Soul Music Grace Morality Music Is Training Harmony Instruments Musical Ill Educated Rhythm Inward Music Soul

Author:Socrates

“Indeed, the construction of a global telegraph network was widely expected, by Briggs and Maverick among others, to result in world peace: 'It is impossible that old prejudices and hostilities should longer exist, while such an instrument has been created for the exchange of thought between all the nations of the earth.'”

World Should Has Beens Earth Nations Results Impossible Prejudice Instruments Expected Construction Hostility Telegraph Maverick

Author:Tom Standage

“We don't see profit as a blind instrument.”

Instruments Blind Profit Thought Provoking Provoking

Author:Jacqueline Novogratz

“The right tools for solving disputes within our community are precision instruments such as reason, communication, empathy, curiosity, and understanding. They are also the right tools for building a global civilization of peace and prosperity.”

Reason Understanding Community Building Communication Civilization Conflict Empathy Tools Instruments Curiosity Prosperity Disputes Our Community Precision Workplace Conflict

Author:Paul K. Chappell

“If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.”

Ifs Writing May Matter Play Stories Imagination Creative No Matter What Instruments Tunes Orchestra Creative Writing

Book:Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

Source: Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty. Usurpation is then an easy attainment, and a usurper soon found. The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin. Let us, then, look to the great cause, and endeavor to preserve it in full force. Let us by all wise and constitutional measures promote intelligence among the people as the best means of preserving our liberties.”

Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition

“If we use our policy instruments wisely with regard to broadband, we can do some very practical things to make 'growth and jobs' a reality in the less-developed and rural regions of Europe, too.”

Ifs Use Reality Jobs Growth Can Do Policy Europe Regard Instruments Practicals Regions Broadband Practical Things Too Real

Author:Viviane Reding

“But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.”

Should Writing Reality Able Song Voice Instruments Guitar Be Good Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Dweezil Zappa

“Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside.”

Important Play Music Is Singing Instruments Instrumental Music

Author:Ali Akbar Khan

“To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.”

Giving Firsts Children Reading Levels Teach Highest Singing Training Instruments Developing Sand Dictating

Author:Zoltan Kodaly

“There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.”

Guy Sound Music Computer Sitting Instruments Divorce Divorced Sitting Down

Author:Aimee Mann

“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.”

Humans Play Beautiful Difficult Voice Instruments Historical Human Voice

Author:Richard Strauss

“The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.”

Looks Art Made Body Age Young Creatures Glory Art Is Instruments Dull Dancer Leap Ballet Sensitivity Envious

Author:Martha Graham

“Aviation is fine as a sport. But as an instrument of war, it is worthless.”

War Sports Fine Instruments Aviation Worthless Air Power Airpower

Author:Ferdinand Foch

“Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it.”

People Mind Persons Ends Song Given Doubt Fate Missing Right Now Instruments Green Guitar No Doubt Annoying Reverence Annoyed

Author:Jonny Greenwood

“Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this.”

“A fierce and monkish art; a castigation of the flesh. You must cut out your imagination and not fly an airplane but regulate a half-dozen instruments . . . .At first, the conflicts between animal sense and engineering brain are irresistibly strong.”

Firsts Art Strong Imagination Animal Brain Half Cutting Conflict Instruments Flesh Aviation Dozen Airplane Engineering Fierce Great Aviation

Author:Wolfgang Langewiesche

“More than ever before, in our country, this is the age of the individual. Endowed with the accumulated knowledge of centuries, armed with all the instruments of modern science, he is still assured personal freedom and wide avenues of expression so that he may win for himself, his family and his country greater material comfort, ease and happiness; greater spiritual satisfaction and contentment.”

“Understanding, and action proceeding from understanding and guided by it, is one weapon against the world's bombardment, the one medicine, the one instrument by which liberty, health, and joy may be shaped . . . in the individual, and in the race.”

World May Action Joy Individual Understanding Race Liberty Healthy Weapons Instruments Medicine Individuality Proceeding

Author:James Agee

“I've always been obsessed with drums. They fascinate me. Any other instrument - nothing. I play acoustic guitar a bit. But it's always been drums first and foremost. I don't reckon on this Jack-of-all-trades thing. I thing that felling is a lot more important than technique. It's all very well doing a triple paradiddle - but who's going to know you've done it? If you play technically you sound like everybody else. It's being original that counts.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Wells Important Done Play Bits Sound Originals Instruments Trade Guitar Technique Obsessed Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Being Original Jack Of All Trades

Author:John Bonham

“This felicitous supposition declared that there is only one Individual, and that this indivisible Individual is every one of the separate beings in the universe, and that these beings are the instruments and masks of divinity itself.”

Universe Individual Instruments Divinity Mask Indivisible Supposition

Book:Ficciones

Source: Ficciones

“Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?”

Play Difficult Steps Instruments Bass Step Up Kazoos

Author:Dave Mustaine

“I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.”

Cameras Instruments Awe Scalpels

Author:Irving Penn

“In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime”

Made Order Social Institutions Instruments Democratic Regimes Consensus Democratization

Author:Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor.”

Christian Individual Community Poor Instruments Liberation Promotion Instruments Of God

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.”

Left Broken Instruments Hip Hop Storytelling Rhythm Hips Hops Melody Songwriting

Author:Jack White

“From the moment the organizer enters a community he lives, dreams... only one thing and that is to build the mass power base of what he calls the army. Until he has developed that mass power base, he confronts no major issues.... Until he has those means and power instruments, his tactics are very different from power tactics. Therefore, every move revolves around one central point: how many recruits will this bring into the organization, whether by means of local organizations, churches, service groups, labor Unions, corner gangs, or as individuals.”

“The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the instrument.”

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Author:Alexander Graham Bell

“Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings.”

Humans Real Helping Purpose Literature Hours Human Beings Instruments Idle Great Literature

Author:Russell Kirk

“You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.”

Knows Writing Bears Instruments Powerless Obliged

Book:The Letters of Mozart and His Family

Source: The Letters of Mozart and His Family

“Science is only ‘one’ of the many instruments people invented to cope with their surroundings. It is not the only one, it is not infallible and it has become too powerful, too pushy and too dangerous to be left on its own.”

People Left Powerful Dangerous Instruments Surroundings Infallible Pushy

Book:Against Method

Source: Against Method

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