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It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.
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No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
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No one has it who isn't capable of genuinely liking others, at least at the actual moment of meeting and speaking. Charm is always genuine; it may be superficial but it isn't false.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else.
Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882) -
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an immediate knowledge of its ugly side.
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The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.
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The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
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You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
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'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.
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A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
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A devotion to humanity is... too easily equated with a devotion to a Cause, and Causes, as we know, are notoriously bloodthirsty.
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
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A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
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A great many
people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices. -
A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
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