"Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."

Voltaire on love
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire on freedom
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"In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."

Voltaire on enemies
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"I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."

Voltaire on doctors
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"Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there."

Rogers, Will on action
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"Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven."

Shakespeare, William on death
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"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we might win, by fearing to attempt.[Measure For Measure]"

Shakespeare, William on doubt
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"why wait for night to dream?"

Unknown on dream
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"One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night."

Gibran, Kahlil on adversity
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them. [Twelfth Night]"

Shakespeare, William on greatness
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"Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

Dement, William on dream
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"With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."

Lincoln, Abraham on laughter
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, --for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it -- not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation."

Melville, Herman on speech   

"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."

Duckett, Hansell B. on speech   

"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound."

Shakespeare, William on character
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"Clear conscience never fears midnight knocking."

Proverb, Chinese on character
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"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both."

Holmes, John Andrew on speech   

"The worst old age is that of the mind."

Hazlitt, William on age and aging
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"Music causes us to think eloquently."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on music
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"Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking."

Colton, Charles Caleb on angels
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"Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best."

Zappa, Frank on
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"Music is only love looking for words."

Durrell, Lawrence on music
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"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do."

Sher, Barbara on individuality
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"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."

Morrison, Van on music
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"Please live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to the music... Look at paintings and at times be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her and love her."

Takami, Koushun on life
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"Music is the universal language: it is the same anywhere you go in the world."

Anonymous on music   

"There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women."

Fontenelle, Bernard Le Bovier on understanding   

"If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together."

Nixon, Richard M. on prejudice
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"The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children."

Darrow, Clarence on parents and parenting
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"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."

Anthony, Dr. Robert on procrastination
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"Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason."

Voltaire on reason
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"Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out."

Smith, Sydney on reason
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"The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe."

Unknown, Source on belief
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"Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on conceit
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"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."

Heinlein, Robert on progress   

"Talking to Laren is like smoking weed: you feel good for a while, but then you feel retarded because you realize you lost brain cells in the process."

van, Zanten, Quinn on conversation   

"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

Zappa, Frank on government
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"A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive."

Jong, Erica on books - reading   

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."

Frost, Robert on liberals
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