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"To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also."
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"Hard tasks need hard ways."
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"Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them."
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"You can or you can't is not the matter.You wanted to or you tried is the whole game about."
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"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
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"You cannot cross large rivers without building bridges."
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"If only one person can do it, you cannot do it, if two people can do it, you can do it too."
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"When there is not enough time to do your best, do the best you can with the time you have."
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"Like yeast, it's impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one's efforts grow and expand."
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"Due to your merit karma, your efforts will bring you success and when the merit karma is expended, your efforts will bring in losses."
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"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it."
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"Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?"
Music

"A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares."
Family

"Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal."
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"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading."
Music

"The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament."
Music

"I am an inventor of music."
Music

"What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators."
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"Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn."
Money

"The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution."
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