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“To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.” quote by Rita Dove — Download Open image

“To practice your scales, so to speak, in order play the symphony, is what you have to do as a young poet.”

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It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.

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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

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James A. Garfield

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A real Christian in an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen, talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the virtue of Another, empties himself in order to be full, admits he is wrong so he can be declared right, goes down in order to…

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