"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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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

John Cage, American Composer

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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

Roger Daltrey, English Musician

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"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."

Karl von Frisch, Austrian Scientist

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"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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

Enya, Irish Musician

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"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."

Wayne Wonder, Jamaican Musician

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"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."

Bruce Springsteen, American Musician

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"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

Gregory Bateson, British Scientist

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"So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

Evan Parker, British Musician

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"What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible."

John Mellencamp, American Musician

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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures."

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

"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."

"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."

"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."

"So in the sense that we were all dealing with that freer approach, yes, it was certainly one of the first contacts, perhaps the first contact, when Peter came that summer. So it's a very pivotal moment that is documented there."

"What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible."

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"I'm an atheist and I thank God for it."

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"Hell is full of musical amateurs."

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"The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong."

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

"An election is a moral horror as bad as a battle except for the blood a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

"As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."