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Quote by Baruch Spinoza
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indi

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf. – Baruch Spinoza

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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. – Baruch Spinoza

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused. – Baruch Spinoza

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I love to make music and stay grounded. – Annie Lennox

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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Were five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle. – Maynard James Keenan

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Music is the soul of language. – Max Heindel

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