Johann Sebastian Bach Quotes
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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If we do not provide education for every single American, we are consigning those without an education to second-class status.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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Our players are mad, but it's good mad.
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Silence is a source of great strength.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen and we lit this tiny cup and burned it. Suddenly, we had an unbelievable jet and a fire. You just could see exactly what had happened.
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There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.
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I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
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Delivering advice assumes that our cognitive apparatus rather than our emotional machinery exerts some meaningful control over our actions.
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Of all the Griefs that harrass the Distrest,Sure the most bitter is a scornful Jest
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The search for freedom through sex is doomed to failure.
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Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is.
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I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Let the world call me a fool,But if things are right with me and you,That's all that matters.And I'll do anything you asked me to.
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Whenever I feel like I'm getting too far away from where I need to be, I think about my sons and the legacy I have to leave for them - and it always brings me back to reality.
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The absence of political personalities in the government will help rather than hinder a solid base of support for the government in parliament and in the political parties because it will remove one ground for disagreement.
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With great powers come great responsibilities; with plenary powers come plenary responsibilities.
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I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually.
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Sugar does induce the same responses in the region of the brain known as the “reward center”—technically, the nucleus accumbens—as do nicotine, cocaine, heroin, and alcohol.
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
