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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect it bids a man to ponder or create and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide. – Norman Douglas

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It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake. – Norman Douglas

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Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam. – Trey Anastasio

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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not; but my faculties are decaying, now, & soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the latter. It is sad to go to pieces like this, but we all have to do it. – Mark Twain [Also, “When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had

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I dont feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that Im a gay man. – Tony Kushner

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Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs. – Andrew Fletcher

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The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. – Charles Baudelaire

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Youll live. Only the best get killed. – Charles de Gaulle

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