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«Since music is a language with some meaning at least for the immense majority of mankind, although only a tiny minority of people are capable of formulating a meaning in it, and since it is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being at once intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man, a mystery that all the various disciplines come up against and which holds the key to their progress.»
Author: Claude Levi-Strauss
(Philosopher)
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«There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.»
«The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.»
Author: Marcel Achard
(Playwright)
| About:
Careers,
Money,
Pleasure,
Writers
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comparable, comparable to, comparable with
«The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.»
Author: Ansel Adams
(Photographer)
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comparable, comparable to, comparable with, composer, differs, print, score, subtle, The Negative
«Thinking in its lower grades is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry»
«The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! / Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.»
Author: Bible
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comparable, earthen, esteemed, give suck, ostrich, pitchers, suck, The Ostrich