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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instin

Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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Everyone should keep a mental wastepaper basket, and the older he grows, the more things will he promptly consign to it. – Samuel Butler

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Excess
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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler

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Money
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Other Quotes from
Music
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Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. – Miriam Makeba

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Music

They teach you theres a boundary line to music. But, man, theres no boundary line to art. – Charlie Parker

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Music

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I dont see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I havent recorded it. – Joni Mitchell

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Music

The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending. – Igor Stravinsky

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Music

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I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society. – Jack Kingston

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Experience

Sooner or later Im going to die, but Im not going to retire. – Margaret Mead

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The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding. – Tori Amos

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Women