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I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.
This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life.
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, and compassion.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.
If a player continues transgressing the rules, his side shall lose him.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
A scout is a boy who dresses like a schmuck. A scoutmaster is a schmuck who dresses like a boy.
How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree!
Why is it that so many people are afraid to admit that they are happy?
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
To be seeing the world made new every morning, as if it were the morning of the first day, and then to make the most of it for the individual soul as if each were the last day, is the daily curriculum of the mind's desire.
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
What is reading but silent conversation?
We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.
The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible.
Men love war because it allows them to look serious; because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.
Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.


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