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Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act.
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Music allows a person to express their deepest thoughts, thoughts that cannot be expressed with just words. I am often asked how I begin a song or develop a melody from nothing. That is the spiritual aspect of creating. Finding something deep within yourself that can only be created by you.
On composing Interview with Bradley Joseph, The Spiritual Signi -
Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.
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My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
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My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.
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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
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Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be otherwise.
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Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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Negro banks, as a rule, have failed because the people, taught that their own pioneers in business cannot function in this sphere, withdrew their deposits.
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Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.
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Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.
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News, news, news - that is what we want. You cannot beat news in a newspaper.
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No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text.
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No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor, but honest.
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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
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No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.
Pensees (1669)
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