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Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

While we are indifferent to

While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.
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Heinrich Heine

Heinrich Heine

Great genius takes shape by

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Art! Who comprehends her? With

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

The barriers are not erected

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Nothing is more intolerable than

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Never shall I forget the

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
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Ludwig van Beethoven

Ludwig van Beethoven

Only the pure in heart

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

Life possesses an amazing array

Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

Whereas the insufficiency of a

Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

Got just enough room/ to

Got just enough room/ to be a friend of yours./ Oh I hope you got room/ to be a friend of mine.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

“A river is nearly the

“A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another, yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.”
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

That good gardener, who wept

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields–– harvests grace with joy.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

Like a Passover Poet gliding

Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

Overall, my books represent a

Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings… The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

War poisons the land/ Like

War poisons the land/ Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

To create art with all

To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
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Aberjhani

Aberjhani

As goes love so goes

As goes love so goes life.
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Kilburn Hall

Kilburn Hall

President Obama smoked so much

President Obama smoked so much pot in college he never learned to spell. Which is why he's confusing the word "ruining" the country with "running" the country.
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Bob Lord

Bob Lord

What remains constant in the

What remains constant in the midst all the innovation and change is that marketers will always find a way to be where their consumers are.
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DEAFPROOFBEATS

DEAFPROOFBEATS

#GMGM ! Good Morning Get

#GMGM ! Good Morning Get Money !!
Anonymous

Anonymous

If you open your mouth

If you open your mouth in a room full of toxic gasses then your life will end.
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Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Being the richest man in

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
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Johnny Wowk

Johnny Wowk

It's too scarey to eat

It's too scarey to eat Dairy - Johnny The Walker
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