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b 1452, Italian Renaissance polymath, Leonardo da Vinci wrote: … the poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things. [Refer Google Books.]

b 1564, Shakespeare wrote:spoken by Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice

• The man that hath no music in himself,
  Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
  Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.
  The motions of his spirit are dull as night,
  And his affections dark as Erebus.
  Let no such man be trusted…

• b 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote:Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

• • b 1770, Ludwig van Beethoven wrote:Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

• • • b 1882, Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky wrote:My music is best understood by children and animals.

Fiorello LaGuardia's biographer, Thomas Kessner wrote:LaGuardia represented a dangerous style of personal rule hitched to a transcendent purpose. People would be afraid of allowing anybody to take that kind of power today. [Refer.]

b 1874, English playwright, novelist, William Somerset Maugham wrote:Only a mediocre person is always at his best. [Refer.]

Eugene Chadbourne wrote:Mao Tse Tung Did Not Have To Deal With People Who Were Watching 7 Hours Of Television Every Day

Giuseppe Garibaldi wrote:Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue

John F. Kennedy, 1963 wrote:Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all

b 1906, Irish playwright, novelist, poet, minimalist, 1969 Literature Nobel Prize, Samuel Barclay Beckett wrote:Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to its vomit. [Refer.]

...there are nights here with the moonlight, cold & ghastly & the whippoorwills, & the screech owls alone disturbing the silence when I could tear my hair & cry aloud for all that is past & gone.

"Shitting and believing are two very different things."

Simone Weil wrote:A very strange thing happened at the turn of the century; without noticing it, we lost science, or at least the thing that had been called by that name for the last four centuries. What we now have in place of it is something different, radically different, and we don't know what it is. Nobody knows what it is.

“…the proponents of one answer have looked with horror at the actions of the believers in another. Horror, because from a disagreeing point of view all the great potentialities of the race were being channeled into a false and confining blind alley. In fact, it is from the history of the enormous monstrosities created by false belief that philosophers have realized the apparently infinite and wondrous capacities of human beings. The dream is to find the open channel.”