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 I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the varieties of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.  Never having been able to succeed in the world, he took his revenge by speaking ill of it. - Voltaire The future is purchased by the present. If you your lips would keep from slips, Five things observe with care; To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where. Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular. We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful. Developing a cheerful disposition can permit an atmosphere wherein one's spirit can be nurtured and encouraged to blossom and bear fruit. Being pessimistic and negative about our experiences will not enhance the quality of our lives. A fool always finds one still more foolish to admire him. Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other. I figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it "content." Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest. I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have. They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator. I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. To see her is to love her, And love but her forever; For Nature made her what she is, And never made another. |
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