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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."
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"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
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"Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval."
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"But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club."
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"I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything."
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"Those whose approval you seek most give you the least."
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"Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best."
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"Children now expect their parents to audition for approval."
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"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
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"As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation."
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"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by."
People
"There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy."
Girls
"Approval or blame will follow in the world to come."
Approval
"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy."
Heart
"The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention."
Fool
"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"
Art
"Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me."
Poor
"If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have."
Mind
"Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?"
Idea
"Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief."
Hope
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