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Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, inf

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. – Cyril Connolly

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As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. – Cyril Connolly

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Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. – Cyril Connolly

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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. – Cyril Connolly

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The weak have remedies, the wise have joys superior wisdom is superior bliss. – Edward Young

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Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. – Walter Benjamin

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Around 93, 94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. – Marc Andreessen

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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing – its what comes through. – K. D. Lang

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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings. – Robert Benchley

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We must be prepared to be part of the cure and not remain part of the problem. – Source Unknown

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If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. – Sidney Lanier

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