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Nicanor Parra
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
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William Blake
To generalize is to be an idiot.
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Socrates
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
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Robert Frost
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
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Henry Adams
Friends are born, not made.
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J. William Fulbright
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
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Edward M. Kennedy, Democratic National Convention, 1980
The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.
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Theodore Roosevelt
To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society.
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Robert Graves
Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.
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Katharine Hepburn
Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
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John Cage
If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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