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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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Charles Ives
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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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Hope
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I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes. – J. B. Priestley

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My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness. – Gabrielle Roy

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Hope

Americans appreciate the way our friends around the world are sticking by us, and we all hope for their continued support in whats going to be some very trying times. – Joe Lando

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Hope

Ireland was a place for the renewal of hope and I still see it like that. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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Any of us can achieve virtue, if by virtue we merely mean the avoidance of the vices that do not attract us. – Robert S. Lynd

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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. – Walter Benjamin

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Enjoyment is just the sound of being centered. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths. – Groucho Marx

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