Pierre Schaeffer Quotes
The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism.
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My favorite toy as a kid was Legos. I loved building things, and that's what we're doing with SumZero.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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The best form of welfare for the troops is first-rate training.
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I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.
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Water, water, everywhere, Atlantic and Pacific. But New York City's got them beat, Our aqua is terrific!
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Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them.
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We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.
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The world changes materially. Science makes advances in technology and understanding. But the world of humanity doesn't change.
