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Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.


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Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.
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The Priestly Code preponderates over the rest of the legislation in force, as well as in bulk; in all matters of primary importance it is the normal and final authority.
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Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
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I had no interest in high school besides art.


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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.
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There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.


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