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If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.

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Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.
(Dort, wo man B

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The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

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The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly.

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Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves.

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There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

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The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

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There is only one way to hurt someone who has lost everything -- give him back something broken.

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