Quote by Charles Ives
But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definitene

But maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man. Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language in the most extravagant sense. – Charles Ives

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A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens… if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly… to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? – Charles Ives

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Music
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A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousness, cannot be explained at noon. Yet it is part of the days unity. – Charles Ives

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Experience
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You cannot set art off in a corner and hope for it to have vitality, reality, and substance. – Charles Ives

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It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. Were all getting on. – William Christopher

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Dont give up. Dont lose hope. Dont sell out. – Christopher Reeve

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I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I dont pretend that if Facebook didnt exist, that this wouldnt even be possible. Of course, it would have. – Mark Zuckerberg

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We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself. – Miguel de Unamuno

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Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. Itll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that well scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we wont fly anymore. – Bruce Schneier

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If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money. – Albert Brooks

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