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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.


Edgard Varese

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EDGARD VARESE Our enormous surplus revenues are illogical and oppressive.
JOHN GRIFFIN CARLISLE They chose names that precede our name in the alphabet.
KATHI JACOBS He practically ruined our unity, our future, the future of the country. I think this step is absolut...
YULIA TYMOSHENKO Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences ...
MARCO BELTRAMI illogical and unlawful acrobatics.
SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC To be logical is very illogical.
DEBASISH MRIDHA Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
GERALD VANN Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity
GERALD VANN It would be illogical to say, 'Let's have a public meeting and say our offices are closed,
ABU AHMED Egotism is an alphabet of one letter
SCOTTISH PROVERB They're good but not all as good as each other.
BRIAN SPELLMAN Yo, thats illogical I cant have it!
NICK JONAS Illogical logic and unreasonable reasoning is how the truth becomes untruth.
FATHOM Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...
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MARK BATTERSON I think it is ill-advised and illogical. This to me is decidedly unhelpful.
GREGG LIEN We are appalled at the poor taste behind the decision to present this musical at the site where Jews...
ABRAHAM FOXMAN Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
A.J. JACOBS There is only twenty-four(24) letters in the alphabet.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL One may appear naive or illogical but it's not naivete or being illogical. It arises from one's fait...
ANITA DAVID Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
JENNIFER E. SMITH Atheism is just a more ignorant illogical version of satanism
AKIBA How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important?
Bu...
LINDA SUE PARK We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical hap...
NICHOLAS A. MCGIRR Searching through the Alphabet Soup
PAUL NOLTE His partitioning of the octave in the first ten bars places Varese with Scriabin and the Schoenberg ...
GEORGE PERLE A four-letter alphabet called DNA.
MATT RIDLEY We go to the Greek alphabet.
FRANK LEPORE But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illo...
OCTAVIA BUTLER There is no ABCD for progress. There is the 5th alphabet 'E' and that too in '6th' position.
APURVA GAGLANI Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
ELLEN GLASGOW My story. I inherited it.”
“I think I’d rather inherit money than a story.”
“I h...
TIFFANY REISZ P7- citizens have learned to think rich and live poor.
IVAN ILLICH We're able to be silly and admit our guilty musical secrets.
LESLIE BOUGHTON I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
TRE COOL I picked her because she knew the whole alphabet. She is America's sweetheart.
MERV GRIFFIN People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
KENT M. KEITH The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
IDINA MENZEL English is soup. Soup of the day is "Positive Thinking Alphabet." This soup is for winners.
LILY CHATTERJEE The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.
CHUCK INGLISH Our plight, ... is a true indication of the general health of the touring industry and it is across ...
PERRY FARRELL Not only does every Hebrew word have its own definition, but every Hebrew letter, within the word, h...
MICHAEL BEN ZEHABE We strongly oppose this. The imposition of a curfew is unnecessary, illegal and illogical. There is ...
KHADGA PRASAD OLI Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
SARGENT SHRIVER Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
RICHARD DAWKINS Musicians! Nothing is new under the sun. We are all extensions and reflections of our personal music...
MARCOS CURIEL History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents,...
GRETEL EHRLICH Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
MARIE LU All of these alphabet soups can go to hell.
BOB ARUM The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.
NICK HANAUER The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly al...
ANTONYA NELSON The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or h...
BENJAMIN HARRISON Love isn't supposed to make sense. It's completely illogical.
JENNIFER E. SMITH There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from eve...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC The Deputy Prime Minister will present a bill that is rambling, over-inflated, illogical and ridicul...
WILLIAM HAGUE Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.
JOE ABERCROMBIE Nostalgia was never what it used to be.
BRIAN SPELLMAN To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible sylla...
HERMANN EBBINGHAUS I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.
ROGER MOORE It's not the same alphabet, and not at all the same as a romance language.
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ROXANNE TAYLOR As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it...
TOM STOPPARD I stopped understanding math when the alphabet decided to get involved.
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MIKE POMPEO In short, the alphabet was the origin of all man's knowledge, and of all his errors.
VOLTAIRE Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for...
WILLIAM GIBSON Nashville's reputation as 'Music City USA' connects our musical art form with many other resources t...
ED WATSON The contribution of copyright is crucial particularly through artistic and musical works since these...
CDE MUJURU Never attempt to apply logic to madness, for there is none; it is the nature of madness to be illogi...
NAVESSA ALLEN It is illogical for the victim to be pressed to recognize its murderer and occupier. What is require...
KHALED MESHAAL The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one a...
JOHN TRUDELL Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?'
JERRY SEINFIELD Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? The guy who wrote that song wrote eve...
STEPHEN WRIGHT Moving a magazine is like ordering 100,000 gallons of alphabet soup, to go. Last week, in Manhattan,...
JAMES A. LINEN Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
MARILYN VOS SAVANT Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
JASON SCHWARTZMAN The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
LESLEY GARRETT This culture of unity governments is a danger to democracy. We are being swept into an illogical pol...
AMIR PERETZ Applying logic to potentially illogical behaviour is to construct a house on shifting foundations. T...
STEWART STAFFORD To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, a...
ERIC IDLE Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER I don't like the ALPHAbet. I'm going to wait for the BETA version.
ANTHONY T.HINCKS I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
GIORGIO ARMANI I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'
JOHN JOSEPH ADAMS What is the point of "labor saving" if by making work effortless we make it poor, and if by doing po...
WENDELL BERRY Our preparation for the tournament was poor and it is the main reason why we performed badly.
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