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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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Anyone who composes and conducts at the same time is immediately suspect, because he must be faking one or the other. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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A good composer does not imitate; he steals. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you. ↗

— Robert Henri

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