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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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Personal Development
"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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Personal Development
"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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Personal Development
"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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Personal Development
"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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Personal Development
"Give light and people will find the way."
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Personal Development
"A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths."
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Personal Development
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue."
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Personal Development
"People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not."
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Personal Development
"There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey."
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"The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions."
Music
"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
Music
"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music
"Remember always that the composer's pen is still mightier than the bow of the violinist; in you lie all the possibilities of the creation of beauty."
Beauty
"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."
Progress
"I am happy now, to recall that I was no only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him."
Son
"Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains."
People
"American teachers have one indisputable advantage over foreign ones; they understand the American temperament and can judge its unevenness, its lights and its shadows."
American
"Sincere composers believe in God."
God
"No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts."
Power
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