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"The class of big capitalists, who, in all civilized countries, are already in almost exclusive possession of all the means of subsistance and of the instruments and materials necessary for the product…"

"When we read in Bharata's classical book of the twenty-two microtones in ancient Indian octaves, of innumerable scales and modes, and of seventeen melodic patterns and their pentatonic and hexatonic a…"

"It is dreadful to be condemned to inactivity in this war which I prepared and initiated."

"Latin works of Quintilan, Latin Library"

"William Osler Photo Collection of McGill University Library"

"The whole subject-matter of exact science consists of pointer readings and similar indications."

"The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is reading and recitation: participation."

"As far as “plot” goes, as I get older I more and more suspect that “plot” is really being used, in the many incarnations of this argument, as a placeholder for a whole cloud of qualities found in cert…"

"Before one is successful that is before any one is ready to pay money for anything you do then you are certain that every word you have written is an important word to have written and that any word y…"

"The Schrödinger equation, which is at the heart of quantum theory, is applicable in principle to both microscopic and macroscopic regimes. Thus, it would seem that we already have in hand a non-classi…"

"there are worldly singularities, there are Christian and salutary ones, too; and this singularity by which one is differentiated from the crowd who tread the broad path is what constitutes the straigh…"

"Then I heard someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that the mind was the disposer and cause of all... and I said to myself: If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose …"

"When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written."

"I maintain that the best song is the one that ends up on the album. So whether I’ve written it or I haven’t, I’m very comfortable with both."

"The act of writing itself distracts the thoughts, and what is read twice is commonly better remembered than what is transcribed."

"A spider lowered itself, fathom by fathom, on a perilous length of thread and was suddenly transfixed in the path of a sunbeam and, for an instant, was a thing of radiant gold."

"Bréal, Michel Jules Alfred, in: Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 4, 1911."

"One thing I discovered, when I was doing reading for this , is that one of the roots of the word wonder means to smile. Wonder is wanting to know more about others, with a smile. It’s that joy. And I …"

"Why tear off a single page when you can throw away the book?"

"Reviews of Colette's Books"