C. W. Ceram quotes
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“Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.”
-- C. W. CeramSource : C.W. Ceram (2012). “Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology”, p.262, Vintage
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“Archaeology, I found, comprehended all manner of excitement and achievement. Adventure is coupled with bookish toil. Romantic excursions go hand in hand with scholarly self-discipline and moderation. Explorations among the ruins of the remote past have carried curious men all over the face of the earth… Yet in truth, no science is more adventurous than archaeology, if adventure is thought of as a mixture of spirit and deed.”
-- C. W. CeramSource : "Gods, Graves & Scholars: The Story of Archaeology".
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“Silence is the only teaching and the only teacher that is there all the time.”
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“Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.”
Source : Aaron Copland (1952). “Music and imagination”, Harvard Univ Pr
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.”
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