#thou

A picture is worth a thousand words. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. ↗

— Brian Eno

#composers #experience #find #increasingly #likely

When I was young, an eccentric uncle decided to teach me how to lie. Not, he explained, because he wanted me to lie, but because he thought I should know how it's done so I would recognise when I was being lied to. ↗

— Brian Eno

#being #being lied to #decided #done #eccentric

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me. ↗

— Enya

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If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. ↗

— Epicurus

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It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life. ↗

— Epicurus

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. ↗

— Epicurus

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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things. ↗

— Joseph Epstein

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