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This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
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This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.
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Those in the international community that refuse to put red lines before Iran don't have a moral right to place a red light before Israel.
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Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
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Thus Vice nurs'd Ingenuity,
Which join'd with Time and Industry,
Had carry'd Life's Conveniences,
It's real Pleasures, Comforts, Ease,
To such a Height, the very Poor
Liv'd better than the Rich before.Source: The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 197, p. 11 -
Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks.
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To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
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To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.
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To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else - these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.
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To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.
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To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.
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To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is pleasure beyond compare.
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To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
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To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
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To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.
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Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it.
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Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.
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Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.
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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
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