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“It is a great obstacle to happiness to expect too much.”
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“Sometimes you wish you could go back and ask your teachers again to guide you; but up there onstage, exactly where they always wanted you to be, you must simply find your way. They have given all the help they can; the only person who can solve the labyrinth of yourself is you.”
Source : "Every Good Boy Does Fine" by Jeremy Denk, www.newyorker.com. April 8, 2013. 
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“And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.”
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“But however mysterious is nature , however ignorant the doctor, however imperfect the present state of physical science , the patronage and the success of quacks and quackeries are infinitely more wonderful than those of honest and laborious men of science and their careful experiments.”
Source : P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.149, Lulu.com
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“My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything, people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.”
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“Almost every aspect of its (Federal Reserve) history should be approached with a discriminating disregard for what is commonly taught or believed.”
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“(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.”
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“I write out of defiance.”
