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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."

"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."

"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."

"The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence."

"Every fiction has its base in fact."

"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone."

"My core beliefs revolve around the idea that we should live to the best of our abilities-we should live and let live."

"There is no formula to it. Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you."

"Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can."

"Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung."

"It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place."

"I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time."

"I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen."
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