Quote by Paul Simon
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Having a track record to live up to and the history of successes had become a hindrance. It becomes harder to break out of what people expect you to do. – Paul Simon

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Theres something about the sound of a train thats very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. – Paul Simon

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My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears. – Paul Simon

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But when one believes that youve been appointed by God for a particular mission in history, you have to be very careful about that, how you speak about that. Where is the self-reflection in that? Where is the humility in that? – Jim Wallis

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History

From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. Well all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next. – Jon Meacham

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Weve been a country thats been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability. – Condoleezza Rice

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History

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Table – Talk

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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. – Abraham Maslow

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The mind is what it thinks. To make it true, think true. – Nisargadatta Maharaj

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Thinking

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. – John Dewey

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