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All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits. — Jonathan Swift
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would… — Diane Wood
The Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms. — Rudy Giuliani
I'm for gay marriage. I don't want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and I wouldn't vote for anybody… — John Waters
If the world would only build temples to Machinery in the abstract then everything would be perfect. The painter and sculptor would have plenty to… — Wyndham Lewis
I believe this thought, of the possibility of death - if calmly realised, and steadily faced would be one of the best possible tests as… — Lewis Carroll
Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior… — Confucius
Remember the waterfront shack with the sign FRESH FISH SOLD HERE. Of course it's fresh, we're on the ocean. Of course it's for sale, we're… — Peggy Noonan
Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs — Friedrich Nietzsche
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were suddenly… — Charles Darwin
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure our atmosphere, to… — Eduard Suess
In size the electron bears the same relation to an atom that a baseball bears to the earth. Or, as Sir Oliver Lodge puts it,… — Waldemar Kaempffert
The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat,… — James Prescott Joule
[O]ne might ask why, in a galaxy of a few hundred billion stars, the aliens are so intent on coming to Earth at all. It… — Seth Shostak
The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the… — Edward Anthony Spitzka
Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers… — Nadine Gordimer
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it ought to be,… — Andy Wilkinson
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make… — Donald Fagen
I start out with words, with the idea, the line. Then after I get a line or two, I try to find what melodic line… — Mose Allison
I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make… — Merle Haggard
Asked if he knew how important Stardust would be, Mitchell Parish said he did have a gut feeling that this was a momentous one. But… — Paul Zollo
The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to… — Sam Bush
Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final… — Augusten Burroughs
Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the… — Kinky Friedman
I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio was just seven years old… — Garrison Keillor

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