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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist."

"I think the composer and production staff of an opera have a real responsibility to use visual elements of all kinds to make clear to the American audience, at any rate, exactly what is going on."

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."

"In other words, I think that if an audience listens to something as an experience of how in tune it is or something of that kind, that the whole point is somehow being missed, and the music has failed."

"Well, opera began with an intent to resuscitate Greek drama, that is, modern opera as we know it."

"I think a lot of composers get into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to follow that."
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