"The notation is more important than the sound.……" — Cornelius Cardew

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• Golf is not, on the whole, a game for realists. By its exactitudes of measurements it invites the attention of… — Heywood Hale Broun
• The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself.… — Ernest Hello
• I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic… — Nicolas Malebranche
• Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it.… — William Faulkner
• He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic.… — Unknown Author
• Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself. — Eugene Delacroix
• Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !),… — Charles Baudelaire
• Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you… — Anne Michaels
• Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what… — Branch Rickey
• Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• On the ostensible exactitude of certain branches of human knowledge, including mathematics. The exactness is a fake. — Alfred North Whitehead

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