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“I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!”

Trying Self Together Values Pieces Taught Passages Guitarist Self Taught

“A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.”

May Two Values Three Five Pieces Minors Fractions Pawns

Book:The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

Source: The Chess-player's Handbook: A Popular and Scientific Introduction to the Game of Chess, Exemplified in Games Actually Played by the Greatest Masters, and Illustrated by Numerous Diagrams of Original and Remarkable Positions

“Sit down and get out a piece of paper and start making lists. Ask yourself, are you in harmony with the things in your life? Are you adopting superficial values? Are you giving your being enough room? Are you doing new and creative things?”

Giving Enough Values Asks Rooms Creative Pieces Buddhism Balance Paper Harmony Down And Lists Superficial Adopting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If I were to give one piece of advice, I would say to never accept anything that you hear or see at face value. As a general rule of thumb, then the more you question, the better.”

Ifs Giving Faces Values Accepting Pieces Advice Thumbs One Piece Face Value

Author:Ernest Gaines

“In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.”

Men Long Bigs Values Water Pieces Boxes London Alcohol Bottles Museums Exhibits Flour Phosphorus Gelatin

Author:Stephane Mallarme

“I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Values Pieces Sacrifice Talent Essentials Objectives Preserves Great Men Epic Grandeur

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.”

World Children Seems Values Fall Loses Pieces Mouths Faults Fruit Appreciation Tongue Sheer Falling To Pieces

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

“In [chess], where the pieces have different and "bizarre" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound”

Different Values Pieces Errors Profound Complexes Various Chess Unusual Mistaken Bizarre Variables

Book:Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems

Source: Edgar Allan Poe Annotated and Illustrated Entire Stories and Poems

“The moon people do not eat by swallowing food but by smelling it. Their money is poetry - actual poems, written out on pieces of paper whose value is determined by the worth of the poem itself.”

People Values Pieces Written Moon Paper Determined Swallowing

Book:Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)

“In a way, a garden is the most useless of creations, the most slippery of creations: it is not like a painting or a piece of sculpture-it won't accrue value as time goes on. Time is its enemy' time passing is merely the countdown for the parting between garden and gardener.”

Way Values Enemy Pieces Creation Painting Goes On Garden Passing Passings Useless Sculpture Gardener Parting Time Passing Slippery Time Passes Time Goes On Countdown

Book:My Garden (Book)

Source: My Garden (Book)

“That there is a continuous link from humans to gorillas, with the intermediate species merely long dead, is beyond the understanding of speciesists. Tie the label Homo sapiens even to a tiny piece of insensible embryonic tissue, and its life suddenly leaps to infinite, incomputable value.... Self-styled pro-lifers, and others that indulge in footling debates about exactly when in its development a foetus becomes human, exhibit the same discontinuous mentality. Human, to the discontinuous mind, is an absolutist concept. There can be no half measures. And from this flows much evil.”

“In any case, once you're dealing on a nonverbal level, ambiguity is unavoidable. But it's the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting - you don't need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to 'explain' them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial 'cultural' value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.”

Needs Art Values Levels Cases Teacher Pieces Written Painting Fine Critics Painter Instruction Composer Superficial Explaining Ambiguity Nonverbal

Author:Stanley Kubrick

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