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"I believe in God, Mozart, and beethoven." »Richard Wagner
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"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or beethoven being good at billiards or golf." »H.L. Mencken
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"If beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation." »Tom Stoppard
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"Ludwig von beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division." »Jan Ehrenwald.
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"You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond." »Andrew Schneider
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."" »Martin Luther King Jr.
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"If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." »Martin Luther King, Jr.
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