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Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The… — Rabindranath Tagore
It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort… — Nick Cave
The commandment of God is, that we love Our Lord in all our heart, in all our soul, in all our thought. In all our… — Richard Rolle
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly… — Ludwig Bemelmans
A Jew cannot be a true patriot. He is something different, like a bad insect. He must be kept apart, out of a place where… — Wilhelm II
All of a sudden there's a song - there in your hotel room playing your guitar - and you write it, and two or three… — Townes Van Zandt
A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not… — Michael Hesemann
It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an… — Vincent Van Gogh
My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I… — Helen Keller
The test of all beliefs is their practical effect in life. If it be true that optimism compels the world forward, and pessimism retards it,… — Helen Keller
True, I've been a long time making up my mind, but now I'm giving you a definite answer. I won't say yes, and I won't… — Samuel Goldwyn
What is true, just, and beautiful is not determined by popular vote. The masses everywhere are ignorant, short-sighted, motivated by envy, and easy to fool.… — Hans-Hermann Hoppe
I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other… — William Shakespeare
Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been… — Swami Vivekananda
It is true that I was denied access to a facility at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, because I never got in. I… — Barry Goldwater
The U.S. Government hasn't maintained secrecy regarding UFOs. It's been leaking out all over the place. But the way it's been handled is by denial,… — Edgar Mitchell
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period,… — Henry David Thoreau
Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'. — Laurie Davidson
Women should have the true nurse calling, the good of the sick first the second only the consideration of what is their 'place' to do… — Florence Nightingale
True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day. — James E. Faust
Raúl is a born goal-scorer. He was always in the right place at the right time. He was a great professional – one of the… — Mauricio Cienfuegos
Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. — Mac Barnett
Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because… — Jamie Zawinski
The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you… — Janet Morris
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt

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