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A melody is not merely something you can hum.

Melody

Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990)

Composer

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

Finding - Goals

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Bruce Lee

Martial Artist, Philosopher, Actor, Director

Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge? Do they change places with lightning speed? The Chinese believe so. To put the heart of the martial arts in your own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension.

Devil - Inspiration - Meaning - War

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C. S. Lewis

Novelist, Scholar, Broadcaster

In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out." - Mere Christianity

Christianity - Kindness - Man - Repetition - Selecting

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Franz Kafka

Novelist, Writer

Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

Eternity

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Quentin Tarantino

Actor, Director, Screenwriter, Producer

Well, it's funny because, "The Green Leaves of Summer" and "The Alamo" theme are the same thing. There's just - the Brothers Four was a different recording of it.

Wellness

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George Clooney

Actor, Filmmaker

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must not walk in fear of one another. We must not be driven by fear into an age of unreason.

Drive

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Poet

In the woods we return to reason and faith.

Gardening - Wild

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Giacomo Casanova

Adventurer, Author

The thing is to dazzle

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Groucho Marx

Comedian, Writer

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Cooking

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Haruki Murakami

Writer

No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they owe you. I don't like to owe anybody anything, so I keep to myself as much on the lending side as I can.

Movement - Wants

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Robert Burns

Poet, Lyricist

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

Farming - Merchant

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Helen Keller

Author, Political Activist, Lecturer

The few own the many because they possess the means of livelihood of all ... The country is governed for the richest, for the corporations, the bankers, the land speculators, and for the exploiters of labor. The majority of mankind are working people. So long as their fair demands - the ownership and control of their livelihoods - are set at naught, we can have neither men's rights nor women's rights. The majority of mankind is ground down by industrial oppression in order that the small remnant may live in ease.

Bank - Countries - Demanding - Man - Meaning - Right - Speculation

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Thomas Merton

Monk, Writer, Theologian, Mystic, Poet, Social Activist

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Psychology - Trickery

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Margaret Mitchell

Novelist, Journalist

That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

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Victor Hugo

Poet, Novelist, Dramatist

Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Heavens

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Stephen Fry

Actor, Comedian, Writer

We always make the mistake, the fatal mistake in the case of military people, of imagining that each war will be a kind of version of the one that happened previously.

Kindness

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Stephen Hawking

Theoretical Physicist, Cosmologist, Author

Disability need not be an obstacle to success.

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Jennifer Love Hewitt

Actress, Singer

To set the record straight, I’m not upset for me, but for all the girls out there that are struggling with their body image.

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Will Smith

Rapper, Actor

There ain't no problem that some other dude didn't have 1,000 years ago.

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William Blake

Poet, Painter, Printmaker

Grown old in love from seven till seven times seven,I oft have wished for Hell for ease from Heaven.

Heavens

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William McKinley

Former President of the United States

We cannot gamble with anything so sacred as money.

Gambling

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Natural Philosopher, Diplomat, Civil Servant

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

Difficulty - Man

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John Quincy Adams

Former President of the United States

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. Sir Anthony Hopkins portrayal of me was adequate. I do believe that my sideburns were of substantially higher quality, however.

Adequacy - Belief - Monster - Wellness

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.

Offence

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Nelson Mandela

Revolutionary, Former President of South Africa

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Imagination - Inspiration

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Norman Mailer

Writer, Poet, Filmmaker, Political Activist

I take it for granted that there's a side of me that loves public action, and there's another side of me that really wants to be alone and work and write. And I've learned to alternate the two as matters develop.

Actions - Wants

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Politician, Historian, Philosopher, Writer

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

Submission

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Aristotle

Philosopher

For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.

Medicine - Merit - Philosophy - Poetry

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Aristotle

Philosopher

This much then, is clear: in all our conduct it is the mean that is to be commended.

Actions - Meaning

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Aristotle

Philosopher

Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means.

Aiming - End - Meaning - Virtue

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Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Writer

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

Conviction - Indulgence - Man - People - Righteousness - Selfishness

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

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