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• I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Grace, Reptiles

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• The globe has been circumnavigated, but no man ever yet has; you may survey a kingdom and note the result in maps, but all the savants in the world could not produce a reliable map of the poorest human personality.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Personality, World

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• The imperfect is our paradise.
  Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
  Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
  Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lying, Perfection, Sound

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.218, Vintage

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• A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation.

  Jane Austen

  Needs, Half, Dozen

  Jane Austen (2013). “Persuasion In Modern English”, p.155, BookCaps Study Guides

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• My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.

  Samuel Beckett

  Records, Lasts, Realizing

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.252, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can go to doctors until the last cow has been placed in its shed. You can journey the earth in search of peace of mind. You can experiment with a dozen theories, hoping for a relief from worries, or the problems which beset you, but unless you learn to relax you will end up disappointed. Tension is a killer! Just relax and note the immediate effect. One of peace and ease of mind. One in which every organ of the body joins. In relaxation there is unity of mind, body and spirit.

  George Matthew Adams

  Journey, Doctors, Worry

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• I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Sex, Opposites

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7535, Delphi Classics

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• Improvisation was the blood and bone of jazz, and in the classic, New Orleans jazz it was collective improvisation in which each performer, seemingly going his own melodic way, played in harmony, dissonance, or counterpoint with the improvisations of his colleagues. Quite unlike ragtime, which was written down in many cases by its composers and could be repeated note for note (if not expression for expression) by others, jazz was a performer's not a composer's art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, New Orleans, Expression

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• Music is one of the closest link-ups with God that we can probably experience. I think it's a common vibrating tone of the musical notes that holds all life together.

  Marvin Gaye

  Thinking, Musical, Together

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• It is interesting to note that during the last ten years Washington's 'Farewell Address' has begun to reappear in college textbooks - minus the four religious warnings.

  David Barton

  Christian, Religious, Farewell

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• It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Order

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.21, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Down the road someone is practicing scales,
  The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

  Louis MacNeice

  Music, Sound, Tails

  Louis Macneice, “Sunday Morning”

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• It is important to note that multiculturalism does not share the postmodernist stance. Its passions are political; its assumptionsempirical; its conception of identities visceral. For it, there is no doubting that history is something that happened and that those happenings have left their mark within our collective consciousness. History for multiculturalists is not a succession of dissolving texts, but a tense tangle of past actions that have reshaped the landscape, distributed the nation's wealth, established boundaries, engendered prejudices, and unleashed energies.

  Joyce Appleby

  Passion, Past, Diversity

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• ... Kindness, sweetest of the small notes in the world's ache, most modest & gentle of the elements entered man before history and became his daily connection, let no man tell you otherwise.

  Carl Rakosi

  Kindness, Men, Connections

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• For the actor, The Lee Strasberg Notes are an indispensable companion.

  Johnny Depp

  Actors, Companion, Indispensable

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• [The Republicans] are always asking the Muslims to denounce their extremists. And I agree with them. But they don't take that note and do it among their own. They don't denounce their own extremists.

  Bill Maher

  Asking, Republican, Agree

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• The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.

  Marvin L. Cohen

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

  Thomas Mallon

  Phones, Cells, Cell Phone

  Interview with Shannon Powers, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

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• A famous violinist once said. Music transcends words. By exchanging notes, you get to know one another, to understand one another. As if your souls were connected and your hearts were overlapping. It's a conversation through instruments. A miracle that creates harmony. In that moment, music transcends words.

  KAORI

  Heart, Miracle, Soul

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• There are only five notes in the musical scale, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be heard. There are only five basic colors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be seen. There are only five basic flavors, but their variations are so many that they cannot all be tasted. There are only two kinds of charge in battle, the unorthodox surprise attack and the orthodox direct attack, but variations of the unorthodox and the orthodox are endless. The unorthodox and the orthodox give rise to each other, like a beginningless circle-who could exhaust them?

  Sun Tzu

  Color, Circles, Two

  Sun Tzu (2005). “The Art of War”, p.98, Shambhala Publications

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• Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Average, Play

  Guitar Player, Volume 7, 1973.

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• On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.

  Molly Ivins

  Get Well, Cancer, Needs

  "Ann Richards and Molly Ivins Ain’t Done with Us Yet!" by Linda Milazzo, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 04, 2007.

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• In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

  Beau Willimon

  People, Scenarios

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• I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.

  Alton Ellis

  Girl, Song, Player

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• It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

  W. Clement Stone

  Hands, Interesting, Problem

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1991). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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