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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.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), (attributed)
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
- I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), "Is Shakespeare Dead?"
- Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
- Honore de Balzac (1799 - 1850)
- Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
- Jules Renard (1864 - 1910)
- We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.
- Roald Dahl (1916 - 1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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