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James Lawrence Levine, b 1943 wrote:I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

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We do not seem to be finding tomorrow’s Toscas.

Josiah Charles Stamp, b 1880 wrote:The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root, and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

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The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented. Banking was conceived in inequity and born in sin… But if you want to continue to be slaves of the bankers and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let the bankers continue to create money and control credit.

Thomas Samuel Kuhn, b 1922 wrote:Talk of evidence, or the rationality of claims drawn from it, and of the truth or probability of those claims has been seen as simply the rhetoric behind which the victorious party cloaks its power. What passes for scientific knowledge becomes, then, simply the belief of the winners. I am among those who have found the claims of the strong program absurd: an example of deconstruction gone mad.

Joan Didion, American journalistic essayist, novelist wrote:We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 AM of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. Refer.

Michael Howard of Michael Howard Studios, Work and Study Center for the Professional Actor, New York, wrote:We, student and teacher, master and novice are all on the same road. We have decided in our hearts, deeply, even secretly, that it’s worth it; that we are strong enough and tough enough to stay the course. Good. Because we are needed - have been needed for millennia. Even before Shakespeare shook the world, we went into the churches, and in the streets, helping to overcome the dark and laugh at the devils. The Athenians knew they needed us; behind the mask we went, our voices magnified searching into their very souls. And eons ago, when one of us in that cave stood up before the fire, his shadow cast large on the stone behind and acted out the hunt, the watchers better understood their courage. We were needed then; we are needed now. Original.