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Quote by Igor Stravinsky
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore witho

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. – Igor Stravinsky

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I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity. – Igor Stravinsky

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Truth
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? – Igor Stravinsky

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alone
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It is one of nature’s ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. – Igor Stravinsky

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A lot of what Im obsessed with is the relationship and the dynamics between people and the family, particularly brothers and their father. – Martin Scorsese

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My family was all born in Sicily and Im Italian-American. Theyre the real thing. Theyre authentic Italians, and honestly theyre the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. Thats the way I think true Sicilians are. – Vinny Guadagnino

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A family is a bunch of people who keep confusing you with someone you were as a kid. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Every child should have a caring adult in their lives. And thats not always a biological parent or family member. It may be a friend or neighbor. Often times it is a teacher. – Joe Manchin

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A light heart lives long. – William Shakespeare

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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life? – Havelock Ellis

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How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. – Victor Hugo

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When obedience to the Divine precepts keeps pace with knowledge, in the mind of any man, that man is a Christian and when the fruits of Christianity are produced, that man is a disciple of our blessed Lord, let his profession of religion be what it may. – Joseph Lancaster

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Knowledge