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The function of Theology? The recitation of the incomprehensible by the unspeakable to pick the pockets of the unthinking.


Robert Anton Wilson

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ANTON CHEKHOV Wine and tobacco destroy the individuality. After a cigar or a glass of vodka you are no longer Pete...
ANTON CHEKHOV Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chast...
ANTON CHEKHOV They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, ...
ANTON CHEKHOV The ability to conduct is a gift of God with which few have been endowed in full measure.
ANTON SEIDL Of course, experience strengthens one later.
ANTON SEIDL Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.
ANTON SEIDL It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its...
ANTON SEIDL It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing th...
ANTON SEIDL I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparent...
ANTON SEIDL I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German ar...
ANTON SEIDL Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real ...
ANTON SEIDL Composers are not all good conductors.
ANTON SEIDL America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music school...
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