Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.

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The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

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Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

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The Constitution of the United States is not a mere lawyers' document it is a vehicle of life, and its spirit is always the spirit of the age.

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Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

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I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

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Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

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