"The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue."

-- Marian McPartland

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“I'm too shy to express my sexual needs except over the phone to people I don't know.”
“Unlikely things are often true . . .”

Source : Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.155, Anchor
“Compassion is an emotion of which we ought never to be ashamed. Graceful, particularly in youth, is the tear of sympathy, and the heart that melts at the tale of woe. We should not permit ease and indulgence to contract our affections, and wrap us up in a selfish enjoyment; but we should accustom ourselves to think of the distresses of human, life, of the solitary cottage; the dying parent, and the weeping orphan. Nor ought we ever to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.”
“We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.”
“There are the two main reasons we don't get our needs met. First, we don't know how to express our needs to begin with and second if we do, we forget to put a clear request after it, or we use vague words like appreciate, listen, recognize, know, be real, and stuff like that.”
“Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.”
“The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.”
“Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.”

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