"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology."
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"Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.“
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"Love is a friendship set to music."
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"Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul."
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