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"A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
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"When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up."

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"It's not all that different with the orchestra. There are orchestras that seem to be encased in dough, so that first you have to break through the normal routine, and clear out the openings."

"Well, I think that it is complicated in that the first four albums were all with Universal so they have the rights to that and therefore it is a lot easier for them to do that period."

"The composition of a single melody is born out of a bit of text, perhaps the first line, but it can also be the entire strophe; it can even be the poem's overall form."
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendously vital thing, and that we who deal with books and who love books have a great opportunity to bring about something in this country which is more vital here than anywhere else, because we have the chance to make a democracy that will be a real democracy."

"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."

"This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people will say. Sooner or later, you are bound to discover that you cannot please all of the people around you all of the time. Some of t hem will attribute to you motives you never dreamed of. Some of them will misinterpret your words and actions, making them completely alien to you. So you had better learn fairly early that you must not expect to have everyone understand what you say and what you do."

"If we want a free and peaceful world if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it."

"Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
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