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If you see certainty in that which is uncertain, you are bound to suffer
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There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph.
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The biggest secret of focused people is that they don't think about focus.
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Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.
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Songwriting is a craft. Writing good songs on a a consistent basis doesn not happen spontaneously. In fact, most of our best songwriters learned to write good songs by writing a lot of not so good ones. Education matters in songwriting, just as it matters for physicists, chemists, doctors, lawyers and MBAs. Education lays the foundataion on which to build experience.
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The walking delegates of a higher civilization, who have nothing to divide, look upon the notion of property as a purely artificial creation of human society. According to these advanced philosophers, the time will come when no man shall be allowed to call anything his. The beneficent law which takes away an author's rights in his own books just at the period when old age is creeping upon him seems to me a handsome stride toward the longed-for millennium.
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To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
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New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.
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I often have discussions with people who demand pluralism and much more. One can discuss these issues, but only within the framework of the law.
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My motto is very simple. Win a Ring for the King.