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"I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality."

"Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare."

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."

"Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."

"Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

"Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another."

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

"It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry."

"We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown."

"The bomb that fell on Hiroshima fell on America too. It fell on no city, no munition plants, no docks. It erased no church, vaporized no public buildings, reduced no man to his atomic elements. But it fell, it fell."

"Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph."

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

"Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it."

"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."

"I find sitting at a specially equipped desk in front of some pretty ugly plastics and staring at a little window is a very unnatural event."

"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason."

"I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it."

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go."

"In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged."

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."

"Country music is three chords and the truth."

"Country music is three chords and the truth."

"No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed."

"Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be."

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

"The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers."