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“The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.”
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“For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly.”
Source : Carlos Castaneda (1972). “The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge”, p.137, Univ of California Press
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“For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a more open veldt country where competition was keener between swiftness and stealth, and where adroitness of thinking played a preponderating role in the preservation of the species.”
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“In my career I have never felt that my being a woman was an obstacle or an advantage. I guess I've been oblivious.”
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“Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity.”
Source : Stephen Vincent Benét (1990). “John Brown's Body”, Ivan R Dee
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“The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.”
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“The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.”
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“The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.”
Source : "What would war with Iraq cost?" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2003. 
