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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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
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The message of the free world to any potential Palestinian leadership should be a simple one: Embrace democratic reform and we will embrace you.
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To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.
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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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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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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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He will come up to the Capitol, as far as we know right now, by a procession probably Wednesday morning and lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda on Wednesday and Thursday, and, we think, a funeral at the National Cathedral on Friday.
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I think it's a style of acting that you trust. You trust the instincts.
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Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
