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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

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There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

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My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.

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Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate, or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.

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There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.

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Take Nothing but Pictures.
Leave nothing but footprints.
Kill nothing but time.

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