"There are millions of chords. There are millions……" — Terry Pratchett
"There are millions of chords. There are millions of numbers. And everyone forgets the one that is a zero. But without the zero, numbers are just arithmetic. Without the empty chord, music is just noise."
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
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