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The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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The performances of my works in the last 10 years are probably equal to all the previous years put together. There are so many venues now and there is a completely new public for opera that's grown up outside of the traditional core opera public.
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The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.
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The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
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The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''
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The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.
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The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
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The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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The plum tree in the yard's so small
It's hardly like a tree at all.
Yet there it is, railed round
To keep it safe and sound. The poor thing can't grow any more
Though if it could it would for sure.
There's nothing to be done
It gets too little sun.Source: Poems, 1913-1956 The Plum Tree [Der Pfaumenbaum] (1934) from The Sv -
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
Source: Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr -
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.
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The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
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The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.
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The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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