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  • Butch Trucks This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Aristotle This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Austan Goolsbee This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
    Speech House of Commons (24 januari 1860)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Leonard Bernstein This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.
    Leonard Bernstein
    American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist (1918 - 1990)
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  • Elbert Hubbard This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bill Owens This year, we must address the Colorado Paradox. We have more college degrees per capita than any state. Yet we lag the nation in the percentage of students who go on to higher education.
    Bill Owens
    American photographer (1938 - )
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  • Carl Sagan Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Robert Runcie Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another. War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism.
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  • Elbert Hubbard Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Bertrand Russell Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Alejo Carpentier Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • William Hazlitt Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • William Shakespeare Thou rather shalt enforce it with thy smile
    Than hew to't with thy sword.
    Timon of Athens IV
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Ellen Glasgow Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
    Ellen Glasgow
    American writer (1873 - 1945)
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