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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the inst

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. – Samuel Butler

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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it — torn up to irrecoverable tatters. – Samuel Butler

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Wise Words
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. – Samuel Butler

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God
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. – Samuel Butler

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Death
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I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me. – Celine Dion

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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. – Ram Dass

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. – Francis Bacon

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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln

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I think no one could have made peace in Bosnia besides Holbrooke. – Michael Ignatieff

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I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. Thats not normal, even for my age. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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