"Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance."

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Victor Hugo

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“The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain " that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.”
“Seek respect, not attention. It lasts longer.”

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“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
“The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.”
“Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache.”
“Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.”
“Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities should be.”
“To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.”

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