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Quote by Igor Stravinsky
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. – Igor Stravinsky

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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. – Igor Stravinsky

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It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. – Igor Stravinsky

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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? – Igor Stravinsky

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Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. – Roger Bacon

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I know that I have lived because I have felt, and, feeling giving me the knowledge of my existence, I know likewise that I shall exist no more when I shall have ceased to feel. – Giacomo Casanova

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The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come. – John Jewel

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I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards – Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. – Zooey Deschanel

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Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history. – Norman Borlaug

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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil. – Laurence Sterne

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What sort of sap doesnt know by now that picture-perfect beauty is all done with smoke and mirrors anyway? – Julie Burchill

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