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Dateline: Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
Jeffrey Vlaming
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Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Sir Francis Bacon
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A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the loving, compassionate one. The grandson asked him, Which wolf will win the fight in your heart? The grandfather answered, The one I feed.
Muriel Strode
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.
Henry Miller
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All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
Alexander Woollcott
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Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word.
William Shakespeare
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All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.
Ovid
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Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
William Ralph Inge
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Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Stephen Wright
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein
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There is no greater sorrow
Dante Alighieri
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Let the punishment match the offense.
Cicero
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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato
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Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.
Homer
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Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it.
Homer
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It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country.
Homer
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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
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PIG, n. An animal (_Porcus omnivorus_) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite, which, however, is inferior in scope, for it sticks at pig.
Ambrose Bierce
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Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel
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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
Mignon McLaughlin
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Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
Benjamin Franklin
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What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.
Ovid
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Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Dr. Seuss
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Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
Unknown
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
Frank Leahy
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Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Woody Allen
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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
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It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.
General Robert E. Lee
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Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.
Yoda
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Like President Reagan, President Bush has not shied from calling evil by its name or declaring his intention to defeat its latest incarnation, terrorism, just as free men and women of all political persuasions, here and abroad, defeated fascism and communism before.
Donald H. Rumsfeld
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortous executions, the unrelenting vindictivenes, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistant that we called it the word of a Demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind, and, for my part, I sincerly detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
Thomas Paine
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
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A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.
Alfred North Whitehead
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What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
Frederich Nietzsche
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Don't worry about a thing,
Bob Marley
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There are no dirty words, only dirty minds.
Lenny Bruce
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken
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In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon.
Soren Kierkegaard
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Edward Abbey
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In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
Bertrand Russell
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