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Plato
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.
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Michael Korda
An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.
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Hesiod
Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.
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Jim Lehrer
I now know how Abbot felt when Costello left, how Brinkley felt when Huntley left, how Sears felt when Roebuck left, and, of course, how Dan Rather felt when Connie left. (at Robert MacNeil's retirement dinner)
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Sir Winston Churchill
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.
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Abraham Lincoln
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over to the person's house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch A jack-o'-lantern with a knife in the side of its head with a note that says 'You.' After that, I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
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Doug Larson
Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.
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Sigmund Freud
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
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Michael Landon
Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
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Robert F. Goheen
In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions suffer a mauling.
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