"All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it."

Cocteau, Jean on music
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"If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music."

Carlyle, Thomas on music
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"The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it."

Thoreau, Henry David on mistakes   

"Keep true to the dreams of your youth."

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von on dream
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"The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins."

Broun, Heywood on life
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

James, William on thoughts and thinking
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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya on action
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"War is like love, it always finds a way."

Brecht, Bertolt on war
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"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."

Churchill, Winston on war
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads."

Shaw, George Bernard on censorship
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"Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution --such call I good books."

Thoreau, Henry David on books - reading   

"I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence."

Burns, Robert on quotations
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"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears."

Clark, Glenn on attitude
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"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."

Franklin, Benjamin on writers and writing
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"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round heads in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them. Disagree with them. Glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
Are the ones who do."

Apple Computer on genius
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

Peale, Norman Vincent on change
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Thoreau, Henry David on desperation
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"Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit."

Thoreau, Henry David on disease
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"But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!""

Kerouac, Jack on passion
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"Words are alive; cut them and they bleed."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words
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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 bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on success
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"We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a belly-full of words and do not know a thing. The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on education
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"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak."

Thoreau, Henry David on purpose
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"What we share with another ceases to be our own."

Quinet, Edgar on gifts
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"What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things."

Unknown, Source on love
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"It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on debt
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"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says, Anywhere but here."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on action
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"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on youth
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"Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance."

Wilde, Oscar on romance and romanticism
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"If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you."

Wilder, Billy on truth
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"The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on quotations
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"We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship."

Hassan, Ihab on quotations
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"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious."

Ustinov, Peter on humor
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"Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours."

Brown, Les on dream
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"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"Ones oldest friend is the best."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on friends and friendship   

"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps."

George, David Lloyd on commitment
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"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; Hold fast; Hold out. Patience is genius."

Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc on patience
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"No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius."

Pavlova, Anna on work
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