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Murder is a horror, but an often necessary horror, never criminal, which it is essential to tolerate in a republican State. Is it or is it not a crime? If it is not, why make laws for its punishment? And if it is, by what barbarous logic do you, to punish it, duplicate it by another crime?
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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 -
Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.
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My engineer dad is where my technical acumen comes from. I remember him taking me to the factories to see how what works. Often he used to open up his motorbike to fix things and I saw how the wheels worked. His car used to be open for dissection very regularly. All this taught me and inspired me to look beyond what I could see on the skin.
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My father was an entrepreneur - a sign maker, and he had about 20 employees - and often he'd take me to business meetings, and I would listen to him talk with his workers and customers. We would also talk a lot about business over dinner.
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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Narrative drives most of economics. Everything seems to be part of a story, and how that story is told often leads to critical error.
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Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.
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Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
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Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history.
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Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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News is so often a report of conflict, an account of problems, a thing of the day and even of the minute, that sometimes I think we make the background darker and the shadows deeper than they actually are.
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No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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