Harmony
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Harmony is a word which originates in the Greek ἁρμονία (harmonía), meaning "joint, agreement, concord" and is commonly used to denote forms of mathematical, musical or social concord.
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- I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms and keep it company.
I'd like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills "Ah, peace throughout the land."
That's the song I hear...- Billy Davis (working with Bill Backer, Roger Cook, and Roger Greenway) in "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing" - Video of The New Seekers rendition at YouTube (with lyrics)
- My temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any personal feuds or dissensions with those, who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself, as every difference of this kind in its consequence must be very injurious.
- George Washington, in a letter to Major-General Gates (24 February 1778); published in The Writings of George Washington (1890) edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford, p. 368
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- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
- Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.
- Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.
- Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
- We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.
- I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.
- Virtue is harmony.
- The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
- The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.
- Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit — love.
- Mankind's role is to fulfil his heaven-sent purpose through a sincere heart that is in harmony with all creation and loves all things.
- Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
- Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.
