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“Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.”
— Jerry Cantrell
“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”
— Lao Tzu
“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.”
— John F. Kennedy
“To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.”
— Buddha
“Deeds will not be less valiant because they are upraised.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
“Seize thy chance, for it will come to thee no more.”
— Baha'u'llah
“Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.”
— Roy T. Bennett
“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
— Pablo Picasso
“If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.”
— Bertrand Russell
“I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Sorrow is how we learn to love.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
— Harry S. Truman
“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Privilege is invisible to those who have it.”
— Michael Kimmel
“Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live”
— Natalie Babbit
“Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.”
— Les Brown
“The mind that turns ever outward Will have no end to craving. Only the mind turned inward Will find a still-point of peace.”
— Ming-Dao Deng
“Action is the foundational key to all success.”
— Pablo Picasso
“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
— Douglas Adams
“Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
— George Orwell
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill

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