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• I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

  Tama Janowitz

  Whole Life, Felt

  "Q&A with Gotham Scribes Pete Hamill and Tama Janowitz". Interview with Boris Kachka, nymag.com.

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• Most of the time each person is immersed in the details of one special part of the whole and does not think of how what they are doing relates to the larger picture. For example, in education, a teacher might say in the next class he was going to "explain Young's modulus and how to measure it," rather than, "I am going to educate the students and prepare them for their future careers".

  Richard Hamming

  Teacher, Thinking, Careers

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• The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read.

  Jacques Ellul

  Knowing, Library, Facts

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• Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; .... It shows us how small is man's body, how great his mind, since his intelligence can embrace the whole of this dazzling immensity, where his body is only an obscure point, and enjoy its silent harmony.

  Henri Poincare

  Men, Mind, Body

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.473, Modern Library

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• It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was so quiet! There was no sound, no practice! He was up there meditating, and when he came down he said, "I have a whole new music!" He said, "There is a new recording that I will do, I have it all, everything." And it was so beautiful! He was like Moses coming down from the mountain. And when he recorded it, he knew everything, everything. He said this was the first time that he had all the music in his head at once to record.

  Alice Coltrane

  Music, Beautiful, Practice

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• I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.

  Charles Mingus

  Music, Art, Player

  "What Is A Jazz Composer?". Charles Mingus' liner notes for "Let My Children Hear Music", album composed by Charles Mingus, January/February 1972.

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• I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

  Evan Parker

  Music, Mean, Thinking

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• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

  Fred Brooks

  Two, Maintenance, Fundamentals

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• Uncertainty hurts business. It annoys individuals. Why keep the whole country, including business and individuals, in uncertainty over the extent of the tax burdens to be placed upon us? How many of those who voted for Calvin Coolidge imagined for a moment that would do nothing to bring about tax relief before 1926?.... But if the Administration persists in opposing a special session then it will inevitably be 1926 before action is taken.... Coolidge and Congress should ease our minds and grease our activities by reforming and reducing taxation as soon as feasible after March 4.

  B. C. Forbes

  Country, Hurt, Taken

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• But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.

  Bruce Nauman

  Mean, Feelings, Tasks

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• WE HAD AN AMAZING STAY AT SURF AND SUNSET VILLA. THE WHOLE FAMILY REALLY ENJOYED THE HOLIDAY AND THE SURF WAS GREAT!

  Tim Regan

  Holiday, Sunset, Villa

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• Presidents, leaders, to be effective have to represent the whole to the parts and to the world outside. They may live in the centre but they must not be the centre. To reinforce the common sense they must be a constant teacher, ever travelling, ever talking, ever listening, the chief missionary of the common cause.

  Charles Handy

  Leadership, Teacher, Talking

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• A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

  Homer

  Leadership, Sleep, Responsibility

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• Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.

  Norman Maclean

  Fishing, Gone, World

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.70, University of Chicago Press

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• Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
  Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
  That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
  Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
  Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.

  John Ashbery

  Inspirational, Life, Self Love

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it is a serious mistake. If I had my way, the whole subject of feelings and emotions in the religious life would be absolutely ignored. Feelings there will be, doubtless, but they must not be in the least depended on, nor in any sense taken as the test or gauge of one's religion. They ought to be left out of the calculation entirely. You may feel good or you may feel bad, but neither the good feeling nor the bad feeling affects the real thing.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Religious, Real, Mistake

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• I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.

  Lucien Carr

  Interesting, Want, Firsts

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• The best advice on writing was given to me by my first editor, Michael Korda, of Simon and Schuster, while writing my first book. 'Finish your first draft and then we'll talk,' he said. It took me a long time to realize how good the advice was. Even if you write it wrong, write and finish your first draft. Only then, when you have a flawed whole, do you know what you have to fix.

  Dominick Dunne

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• Our motto is just to play the whole 48 minutes. We are here to play it from start to finish. Things will go up and down. We will make runs and they will make runs. But we just keep playing.

  Tim Duncan

  Running, Play, Motto

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• Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained very quiet. The sense of responsibility in the financial community for the community as a whole is not small. It is nearly nil. Perhaps this is inherent. In a community where the primary concern is making money, one of the necessary rules is to live and let live. To speak out against madness may be to ruin those who have succumbed to it. So the wise in Wall Street are nearly always silent. The foolish thus have the field to themselves. None rebukes them.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Wise, Wall, Responsibility

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1955). “The great crash, 1929”

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• The voice of a whole people goes up in the silent workings of an institution.

  Harriet Martineau

  Voice, People, Silent

  Harriet Martineau (1838). “How to Observe: Morals and Manners”, p.63

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• I think the people that enjoyed Freedom will love this one; and I actually think some of the unique musical twists this project is taking will open it up to a whole new audience as well.

  Michael W. Smith

  Unique, Thinking, People

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• I don't wanna gain the whole world and lose my soul.

  TobyMac

  Soul, World, Gains

  Song: Lose My Soul

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• I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Simple, Together

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.75, Princeton University Press

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• But the main point is that soldiers, after fighting for some time, are apt to be like burned-out cinders. They have shot off their ammunition, their numbers have been diminished, their strength and their morale are drained, and possibly their courage has vanished as well. As an organic whole, quite apart from their loss in numbers, they are far from being what they were before the action; and thus the amount of reserves spent is an accurate measure on the loss of morale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Fighting, Loss, Numbers

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.231, Princeton University Press

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