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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

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I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

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Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

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Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for t...more

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Something deeply hidden had to be behind things.

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Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

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Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the ri...more

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The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it...more

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sp...more

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sp...more

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We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.