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To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of


Robert A. Schumann

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and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought
ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
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And when nobody else gave a damn I...
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STEPHEN FRY It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w...
GARY F EVANS... I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin...
DAVID BOWIE Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
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The three men laughed ...
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in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
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E.E. CUMMINGS Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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ANNE DUDLEY Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A tooth for a tooth, will make the world's inhabitants a people without teeth
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-- by John VanDyke Wilmerding II

this is my letter to a young ...
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"I don't know, but the...
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EUGINIA HERLIHY We are born different to make a difference.
LISA R. REYNOLDS Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; beca...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN Summit or death, either way, I win.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, resp...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN It is music's lofty mission to shed light on the depths of the human heart
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the ...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN Talent works, genius creates.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music.
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cu...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN He must be heard - and also seen; for if he played behind the scenes a great deal of the poetry of h...
ROBERT A. SCHUMANN O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
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DEYTH BANGER I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Nobody is going to hand you a music career.
CAM Birds do not attend music school, but compose timeless masterpieces.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around.
RHODA BELLEZA Have fun. Do something nobody else had done before, or has done since.
PAUL PRUDHOMME You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame...
CALEB DESCHANEL If you are listening to music that doesn't touch you, that doesn't mean anything to you, tune into y...
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DEYTH BANGER

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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matt...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the r...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political po...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally lo...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence nev...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never try to outstubborn a cat.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Climate is what you expect, weather is what you get.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I grok in fullness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay o...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discove...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN There is no safety this side of the grave
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Secrecy begets tyranny.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Belief gets in the way of learning.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
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ROBERT A. COOK The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sense is never common.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.
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ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are not insects,' Captain John Sterling said soberly. 'They are self-propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Butterflies are self propelled flowers.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Universe was a damned silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for its existen...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democ...
ROBERT A. DAHL Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with hi...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest a...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, an...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation,...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at on...
ROBERT A. COOK Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to conf...
ROBERT A. DAHL The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Never insult anyone by accident.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acqu...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I wish you sunshine on your path and storms to season your journey. I wish you peace in the world in...
ROBERT A. WARD An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions.
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly c...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth ...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
ROBERT A. COOK It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the m...
ROBERT A. SCHULLER Hardly a year passes that fails to find a new, oft-times exotic, research method or technique added ...
ROBERT A. HUMPHREY Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago
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