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Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

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I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
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You must work - we must all work to make the world worthy of its children.
Pablo Casals
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To retire is to die.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?
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Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.
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The child must know that he is a miracle, that since the beginning of the world there hasn't been, and until the end of the world there will not be, another child like him.
Pablo Casals
The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.
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As long as one can admire and love, then one is young forever.
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The Cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older but younger with time more slender more supple more graceful.
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Pablo Casals
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Pablo Casals
Even miracles take a little time.
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Don't play the notes. Play the meaning of the notes.
Pablo Casals
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There is no substitute for work; what seems ease of performance comes from the greatest labor.
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Rock n' roll is poison put to sound.
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By Rice's own standards, the war was well underway by the time he took office. He was a war president the moment he took the oath. But did he act like one?
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Under current law volunteers who are not working with an official nonprofit organization are not covered by the Volunteer Protection Act. Therefore, there are absolutely no legal protections for the average American who wishes to volunteer.
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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P.C. is just too Big Brother - telling me how I should act and feel.
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Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
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I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.
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For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts.
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I want more children but for the next three years I want to act.
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I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.
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I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism.
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I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host.
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My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do.
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After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.
Raymond Queneau
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Lyndon B. Johnson
A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.
Queen Victoria
I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
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I went to my last three years of high school in New Jersey. I just wanted to act, you know?
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Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
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