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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two o

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marleys attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didnt go to play, he went to conquer. – Jon Fishman

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It goes without saying that the Jewish people can have no other goal than Palestine and that, whatever the fate of the proposition may be, our attitude toward the land of our fathers is and shall remain unchangeable. – Theodor Herzl

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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. – Alan Watts

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Although as a sailor I despised politics – for I loved my sailors life and still love it today – conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. – Fritz Sauckel

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