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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."

James Mark Baldwin, American Philosopher

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"I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

John Cage, American Composer

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

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"The first thing I think of when I hear the name of Lucille Ball is a Hollywood legend. I have fond memories of growing up at her house, but she was a different person off the set than she was on the set."

Keith Thibodeaux, American Musician

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"I never excluded any genre on my first record."

Deana Carter, American Musician

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"The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick."

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"First be best, then be first."

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"Harmony with land is like harmony with a friend; you cannot cherish his right hand and chop off his left."

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"Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient."

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"One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring."

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"Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers."

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"We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect."

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"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."

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"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise."

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"In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them."

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"We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive."

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"Recreational development is a job not of building roads into the lovely country, but of building receptivity into the still unlovely human mind."

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