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I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

Dying Early Enough Fast
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I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.

Again Comet Computation Did
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Alone Challenges Change Computer
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.

Car Get Goes Lot
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I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

About Comet Find Know
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She was deeply passionate about the sacred feminine.

About Deeply Feminine Sacred
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I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

Again AllDay Almost Am
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

Acceptance Cannot Definition Faith
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I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

About Alone Cave Courage
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I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

Alone Closet Girl Give
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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good.

Affections Even Good Sacrificing
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People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.

Bear Head Heart How
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Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.
Aid AIDS Individuals Large
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That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.

Knowledge Popular Scientific Which
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The best that can be said of my life so far is that it has been industrious, and the best that can be said of me is that I have not pretended to what I was not.

Been Best Far Has-Been
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The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.

Educating Give Greatest Habit
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The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.
Flattery Genuine Love Neither
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The Southern character is opposed to haste. Safety is of more worth than speed, and there is no hurry.

Character Haste Hurry More
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The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power!
Broad Human HumanSoul Learning
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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We especially need imagination in science.

Imagination Need Science
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Yesterday I had a Shaker visitor, and today a Catholic; and the more I see and hear, the less do I care about church doctrines.

About Care Catholic Church
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
After End Finish Long
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Able Better Building Church
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I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

Above Any Been Better
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Am Book Drama Film
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To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Also Duck Effort Hear
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The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

About Always Aware Composer
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My music is best understood by children and animals.

Animals Best Children Music
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Am Animal Animals Anymore
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.

Constraint Constraints Execution More
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Appreciation General Instead Love
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

Appetite Beginning Brings Eating
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Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

Always Hear Like Music
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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Change ChangeTheWorld Citizens Committed
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I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

Admit Beings Contributions Fellow
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

Anonymity Bach Been Born
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In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

Create Dynamic Force Love
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

Bar Felt Life Music
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Alone Being Essence Love
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Assumptions Chiefly Composer Exposure
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Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

Cannot Forgiven Only Sins
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.

Harp Lives Out Percent
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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Am Bring Cannot Forth
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The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

Any Becoming Ending Endless
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I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

Each Exhaust Genius Human
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

Burn Cannot Itself Kindle
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

Careers Classic Conductor Conductors
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Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

Believe Caring Change ChangeTheWorld
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
Did Had Pairs Shoes
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