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She raised us with humor, and she raised us to understand that not everything was going to be great-but how to laugh through it.
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I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.
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Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
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A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something.
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Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.
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To be an American (unlike being English or French or whatever) is precisely to imagine a destiny rather than to inherit one; since we have always been, insofar as we are Americans at all, inhabitants of myth rather than history.
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The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.
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Everything is nothing, with a twist.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I would prefer the teacher to focus on teaching and have a security officer worry about keeping the kids safe.
