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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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"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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"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing."
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"To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false."
Music

"I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes."
Music

"America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people."
People

"My religion lies in my composition."
Religion

"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
Inspirational

"There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying."
Music

"I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country."
Leader

"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music."
Beauty

"The movements which I make I cannot possibly repress because, at the time, I am actually the idea I am interpreting, and naturally I picture my players and auditors as in accord with me. I know, of course, that my mannerisms have been widely discussed."
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