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I know this--a man got to do what he got to do.

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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

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My music is best understood by children and animals.

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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

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Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Be wise with speed . A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

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The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

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Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

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Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

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