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The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.

Quoted in Harold Atkins and Archie Newman Beecham Stories (1978).

When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.

"Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

There is one and only one social responsibility of business - to use it resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

"The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits By Milton Friedman". James Duffy, Original article from the New York Times Magazine, www.morethanaccountants.co.uk. September 13, 1970.

There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

You are a person and then you cease to be a person, and a cadaver takes your place.

Mary Roach (2004). “Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”, p.12, W. W. Norton & Company

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.

"Is Science a Religion?". Humanist, www.skeptical-science.com. January/February 1997.

So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren't afraid? And then go do it.

Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.35, Knopf

You cannot increase the length of a day but you can improve the quality of it.

Ryuho Okawa (2013). “An Unshakable Mind: How to Overcome Life’s Difficulties”, p.19, Jaico Publishing House

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”