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- "From a pound of iron worth a few pennies can be made many thousand watch-springs, which are worth hundreds of thousands. Put to good use the pound that God has given you."—Robert Schumann
- "Perhaps only Genius really understands Genius."—Robert Schumann
- "Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?"—Ludwig van Beethoven
- "I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."—Jane Austen
- "Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best."—Oscar Wilde (from Personal Impressions of America (Leadville))
- "No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."—Oscar Wilde (from The Decay of Lying)
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- "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
- "If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind." - John Stuart Mill
- "No human thing is of serious importance." - Plato
- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be?" - Nelson Mandela.
- "An eye for an eye, and the whole world is blind." - Gandhi
- "A child of five would understand this. Send somebody to fetch a child of five." - Groucho Marx
- "Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect." - Cheif Seattle
- "What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action, how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me - nor women neither." - William Shakespeare.
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- "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks
- "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man" - Che Guevara
- "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it." - George Orwell
- "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein
- "The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think." - Horace Walpole
- "When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame." - Dan Quayle
- "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F Kennedy
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
- "The trees are watching... and they are hungry." - Tree Biting Conspiracy
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