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"I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that he has a sense of humour."
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"I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense."
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"I who am blind can give one hint to those who see: Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. And the same method can be applied to the other senses. Hear the music of voices, the song of a bird, the mighty strains of an orchestra, as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow. Touch each object as if tomorrow your tactile sense would fail. Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel, as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. make the most of every sense; glory in the beauty which the world in all the facets of pleasure reveals to you through the several means of contact which Nature provides. But of all the senses, I am sure that sight is the most delightful."
"It makes no sense to talk of the social obligations of the corporation without reference to its economic obligations. The two are intertwined."
"One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them."
"All things make sense; you just have to fathom how they make sense."
"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."
"I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra."
"I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own."
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