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Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. ↗

— Mark Russell

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The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs are here composed, into a sort of rude steps. ↗

— Charlotte Smith

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At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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By recognizing that the chemical atom is composed of single separable electric quanta, humanity has taken a great step forward in the investigation of the natural world. ↗

— Johannes Stark

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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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Know what the old masters did. Know how they composed their pictures, but do not fall into the conventions they established. These conventions were right for them, and they are wonderful. They made their language. You make yours. All the past can help you. ↗

— Robert Henri

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My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed. ↗

— Sergei Prokofiev

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