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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
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"In the first place, Descartes stands for the most explicit and uncompromising dualism between mind and matter."
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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."
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"Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely."
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"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."
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"The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and my answer must at once be, it is no use. There is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever."
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"First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck."
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"Definitely not a sitcom, that's my first condition. No sitcoms."
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"When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me."
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"It was my band. I organized the band and Dizzy was in the band. Dizzy was the first musical director with the band. Charlie Parker was in the band. But, no, no, that was my band."
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"You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name."
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"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull."
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"Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours."
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"Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do."
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"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
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"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
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"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
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"God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand?"
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"So it takes years to make a solid company."
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"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance."
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"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
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