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“There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind.”

Ifs Player Wonderful Mankind Pure Machines Prepared Chess Invention Former Operations Comparison Be Prepared Analogies Calculating Chess Players

Book:The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Source: The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“Music is at once the most wonderful, the most alive of all the arts- it is the most abstract, the most perfect, the most pure- and the most sensual. I listen with my body and it is my body that aches in response to the passion and pathos embodied in this music.”

Art Body Passion Perfect Alive Wonderful Pure Music Is Response Sensual Abstract Ache Pathos

Book:Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

“This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.”

Heart Wonderful Pure Wonderful Things

Author:Corra May Harris

“A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.”

Heart Wonderful Pure Gold Assets Good Heart

Author:Dolly Parton

“Teenage girls are extremists who see the world in black-and- white terms, missing shades of gray. Life is either marvelous or notworth living. School is either pure torment or is going fantastically. Other people are either great or horrible, and they themselves are wonderful or pathetic failures. One day a girl will refer to herself as "the goddess of social life" and the next day she'll regret that she's the "ultimate in nerdosity.”

“Turn to Mary, tota pulchra, all pure and wonderful, and tell her: Our Lady and Mother, the Lord wanted you yourself to look after God and tend him with your own hands. Teach me, teach us all, how to treat your Son!”

Looks Hands Wanted Mother Turns Lord Teach Wonderful Son Pure Treats Mary Your Son

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“I'm in my father's car at age 9 or 10 crying to Leonard Cohen's 'Famous Blue Raincoat,' thinking that you could write nearly a love letter to a man who betrayed you by having an affair with your wife. I was thinking how wonderful and pure music can be for explaining situations.”

Thinking Men Writing Age Father Situation Wife Wonderful Car Cry Pure Letters Blue Affair Betrayed Explaining Love Letter

Author:Lou Doillon

“I'd say 3/4 of advertising works on pure Pavlov. Think how association, pure association, works. Take Coca-Cola company (we're the biggest share-holder). They want to be associated with every wonderful image: heroics in the Olympics, wonderful music, you name it. They don't want to be associated with presidents' funerals and so-forth.”

Thinking Want Names President Company Wonderful Share Pure Advertising Funeral Association Olympics Coca Cola Pavlov

Author:Charlie Munger