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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.

— Jack Handey

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IF YOU ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because man, they're gone.

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992)

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.

Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992)

A wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe.

If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.

Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992)

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The emphasis of study upon a particular aspect of music is in itself ideological because it contains implications about the music's value.

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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827)

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Eduard Hanslick

Above the pitch, out of tune, and off the hinges.

François Rabelais Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)

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