"Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent."
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"Every musician, their goal in life is to play music that people love, and I've accomplished my goal. I was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and left that chapter of my life and those people in the past. Good and bad, I've loved and am thankful for that chapter."
"The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves."
"When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed."
"Bob Hope, like Mark Twain, had a sense of humor that was uniquely American, and like Twain, we'll likely not see another like him."
"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked."
"I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind."
"If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s."
"What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."
"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars."
"In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices."
"Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things."
"Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."
"When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing."
"Education is no substitute for intelligence."
"When you are able to understand the language of silence, you will be able to see the beauty of the invisible."
"Well? Is it true? Did she?""Did she what?""You know. Fall outta the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down?"
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
"With Cosmic Ordering, the best days of your life are always ahead of you."
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