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Stephen R Covey: We accomplish all...

Stephen R Covey: We accomplish all...

We accomplish all that we do through delegation -- either to time or to other people.

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W H Beveridge: Scratch a pessimist...

W H Beveridge: Scratch a pessimist...

Scratch a pessimist and you find often a defender of privilege.

Source: In...

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W H Beveridge: The human mind...

W H Beveridge: The human mind...

The human mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with a similar...

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Paula Nelson: Americans want action...

Paula Nelson: Americans want action...

Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work . ....

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Joseph A Schumpeter: Democracy is a...

Joseph A Schumpeter: Democracy is a...

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political...

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J P Morgan: Anyone who has...

J P Morgan: Anyone who has...

Anyone who has to ask about the annual upkeep of a yacht can't afford one.

Source:...

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If we were...

If we were...

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician...

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Art is a...

Art is a...

Art is a kind of illness.

Source: In Five Thousand Quotations for all occasions, by...

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You compose because...

You compose because...

You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive,...

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Neither a lofty...

Neither a lofty...

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love,...

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It was an...

It was an...

It was an initiation into the love of learning, of learning how to learn . . . as a matter of interdisciplinary...

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I thought of...

I thought of...

I thought of myself as a species of knight errant attacking dragons single-handedly and rescuing musical virtue in...

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Musical comedies aren't...

Musical comedies aren't...

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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A musicologist is...

A musicologist is...

A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it.

Source: Beecham...

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The essential [conditions]...

The essential [conditions]...

The essential [conditions] of everything you do . . . must be choice, love, passion.

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Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid...

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.

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All my life...

All my life...

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Source: In The...

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Go within every...

Go within every...

Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle...

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Learning music by...

Learning music by...

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Source: Reader's...

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In opera, as...

In opera, as...

In opera, as with any performing art, to be in great demand and to command high fees you must be good of course, but...

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