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• Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times.
  In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. -- Edward Abbey...
• A Mahler symphony is full of surprises--but each surprise, on second hearing, turns out to be an *inevitable* surprise.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical
  in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public....
• Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction. -- Newton's Fourth Law
• Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
• Incoming fire has the right of way. Murphy's Fourth Military Law
• Beware of the man who has no enemies. -- Edward Abbey