Great Throughts Treasury

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Aaron Copland

The simplest way of listening to music is to listen for the sheer pleasure of the musical sound itself.

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Listening | Music | Pleasure | Sound |

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Abd-el-Kader or Abdul Qadir NULL

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

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Wise | Words |

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Edward Thorndike, fully Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

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Adlai Ewing Stevenson

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

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Aeschylus NULL

Simple are the words of truth.

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African Proverbs

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

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Deeds | Nothing | Words | Deeds |

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