Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. -George Santayana

 

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.


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Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

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Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences.

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