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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I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is.
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Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.
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He wanted to laugh. He ought to have corrected the man. “Yes,” he finally said. “I do things with stuff. How ever did you know?” “Maybe this is for the best,” Fairfield said. “You might know of a whole range of cures that I have not been able to access.
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Every time I stepped onto the stage as Jesus, it felt like someone was pouring some honey into my body. It was amazing, an amazing feeling. And then when I had to let go of it, it was hard.
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I would say practical progressive, which means that the Republican party or any political party has got to recognize the problems of a growing and complex industrial civilization. And I don't think the Republican party is really wide awake to that.
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If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.
