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On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of what I've done or what I've gone on to achieve in my career.

Lionel

Thinking, Careers, Gone

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Whether a man hides his bad qualities and vices or confesses them openly, his vanity wants to gain an advantage by it in both cases: just note how subtly he distinguishes between those he will hide his bad qualities from and those he will face honestly and candidly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Men, Vanity, Quality

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In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music, Color, Snakes

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a pause along the way for a deep clear breath, a moon-viewing moment, a seasonal note or a farewell poem to a departing monk. His poems speak softly and clearly, like hearing a temple bell that was struck a thousand years ago.

Sam Hamill

Farewell, Moon, Simple

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I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

Amy Poehler

Ideas, Knowing, People

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Franz Kafka is dead. He died in a tree from which he wouldn't come down. "Come down!" they cried to him. "Come down! Come down!" Silence filled the night, and the night filled the silence, while they waited for Kafka to speak. "I can't," he finally said, with a note of wistfulness. "Why?" they cried. Stars spilled across the black sky. "Because then you'll stop asking for me."

Nicole Krauss

Stars, Night, Sky

Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.116, W. W. Norton & Company

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Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Mean, Keys, Giving

"De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 8,

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If our designs for private houses are to be correct, we must at the outset take note of the countries and climates in which they are built.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Country, House, Design

"De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VI, Chapter I, Section 1), circa 15 BC.

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In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Theatre, Principles, May

"De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book V, Chapter V, Section 1,

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You love writing; I hate it; and if I had a lover who expected a note from me every morning, I should certainly break with him. Let me beg you then not to measure my friendship by my writing.

Madame de La Fayette

Morning, Hate, Writing

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A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used instead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

Anna Brackett

Book, Simple, Two

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On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Art, Book, Eight

Arthur Conan DOYLE (2010). “Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes”, p.690, Omnibus

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The soft contralto notes of a woman's voice are born in the immediate region of the heart.

Alfred de Musset

Heart, Voice, Born

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Rules of property ought to be generally known, and not to be left upon loose notes, which rather serve to confound principles, than to confirm them.

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

Principles, Property, Ought

"Goodtitle v. Duke of Chandos" (1760), 2 Burr. Part IV., p. 1076 in "The Dictionary of Legal Quotations" by James William Norton-Kyshe, (pp. 210-212), 1904.

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Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.

B. C. Forbes

Attitude, Sight, Interesting

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The difference between farce and humour in literature is, I suppose, that farce strums louder and louder on one string, while humour varies its note, changes its key, grows and spreads and deepens until it may indeed reach tragic depths.

V. S. Pritchett

Funny, Humor, Keys

V.S. Pritchett (2011). “In My Good Books”, p.42, A&C Black

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Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

Jeanette Lee

Heart, Optimist, Ibsen

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Seek to make life henceforth a consecrated thing; that so, when the sunset is nearing, with its murky vapors and lowering skies, the very clouds of sorrow may be fringed with golden light. Thus will the song in the house of your pilgrimage be always the truest harmony. It will be composed of no jarring, discordant notes; but with all its varied tones will form one sustained, life-long melody; dropped for a moment in death, only to be resumed with the angels, and blended with the everlasting cadences of your Father's house.

John Ross Macduff

Song, Father, Sunset

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 159, 1895.

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Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

David Ricardo

Issues, Gold, Purpose

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In our Mechanics' Fair, there must be not only bridges, ploughs, carpenter's planes, and baking troughs, but also some few finer instruments,--rain-gauges, thermometers, and telescopes; and in society, besides farmers, sailors, and weavers, there must be a few persons of purer fire kept specially as gauges and meters of character; persons of a fine, detecting instinct, who note the smallest accumulations of wit and feeling in the bystander.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rain, Character, Bridges

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.488

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I think now happiness is a thing you practice like music until you have skill in striking the right notes on time. We have no vocation for it. And I had no practice, not a day when I was free from care and one great anxiety - and one must be free to be happy. I know that much about it by having missed it.

Corra May Harris

Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He listed 275 men of the cloth who used the Bible to prove that white people were entitled to own black people as work animals.

James A. Haught

Book, Men, Animal

James A. Haught (1990). “Holy horrors: an illustrated history of religious murder and madness”

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The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Music, Order, Play

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Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been.

Kenneth Franklin

Time, Realizing, Clock

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When I make fun of you, I strike just the right note. When you make fun of me, you're an incredibly ungrateful asshole and you know why.

Alec Sulkin

Fun, Ungrateful, Strikes

Twitter post from Apr 03, 2013

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