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    Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

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    Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.

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    A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

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    Attack and defence, want and war, victory and defeat, lordship and thraldom, all sealed with the seal of blood: this from henceforth is the History of Man.

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    Blessed be, the genius who never knew good fortune! Genius in itself already means so much; what meaning does luck still hold for him?

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    Divorce is one of the most financially traumatic things you can go through. Money spent on getting mad or getting even is money wasted.

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    Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.

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    For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

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    From its first faint glimmerings, History shews Man's constant progress as a beast of prey. As such he conquers every land, subdues the fruit-fed races, founds mighty realms by subjugating other subjugators, forms states and sets up civilisations, to enjoy his prey at rest.

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    Human dignity begins to assert itself only at the point where man is distinguishable from the beast by pity for it.

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    I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

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    I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

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    I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say.

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    I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the one, indivisible Art; - I believe that this Art proceeds from God, and lives within the hearts of all illumined men.

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    I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

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    If experiments on animals were abandoned on grounds of compassion, mankind would have made a fundamental advance.

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    I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.

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    I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

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    Imagination creates reality.

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    In contrast to reincarnation and karma, all other views seem petty and narrow

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    I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

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    It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

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    It is impossible to communicate with Schumann. The man is hopeless; he doesn't talk at all.

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    It is necessary for us to explain the involuntary repugnance we possess for the nature and personality of the Jews. The Jews have never produced a true poet. Heinrich Heine reached the point where he duped himself into a poet, and was rewarded by his versified lies being set to music by our own composers. He was the conscience of Judaism, just as Judaism is the evil conscience of our modern civilization.

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    It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.

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    I wish I could score everything for horns.

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    I write music with an exclamation point!

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    Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

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    ...music is the living God in our bosoms.

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    Music truely has to all other arts the same relation as religion to the church.

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    My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

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    Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

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    One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion.

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    One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.

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    Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

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    Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

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    That even in its sharpest pangs of pain a dog can still caress its master we have learnt from the studies of vivisectors.

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    The error in the art-genre of Opera consists herein: a Means of expression (Music) has been made the end, while the End of expression (the Drama) has been made a means.

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    The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

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    The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

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    The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materials of tissues and organs. It's still 'out there,' but it's possible to put together a grant proposal now that doesn't sound completely crazy.

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    The most tremendous genius raised Mozart above all masters, in all centuries and in all the arts.

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    The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

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    The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

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    These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.

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    The sounds proceeding from the instruments of symphonic music seem to be the very organs of the mysteries of creation; for they reveal, as it were, the primal stirrings of creation which brought order out of chaos long before the human heart was there to behold them.

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    The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

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    Those who grasp the whole, will also comprehend all parts of that whole, even when immediate technical understanding is lacking, and recognize and marshal these.

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    True drama can be conceived only as resulting from the collective impulse of all the arts to communicate in the most immediate way with a collective public... Thus especially the art of tone, developed with such singular diversity in instrumental music, will realize in the collective artwork its richest potential -- will indeed incite the pantomimic art of dancing in turn to wholly new discoveries and inspire the breath of poetry no less to an undreamed-of fullness. For in its isolation music has formed itself an organ capable of the most immeasurable expression - the orchestra.

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    What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.