The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste … - Gerald Brenan

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I think just letting go is a really good thing to do in many areas of your life, songwriting included.

Gerald Brenan

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

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The cliche is dead poetry.

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The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

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Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

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Jon Connor

My earliest influences would definitely be my father, just seeing him play in different bands and going to his shows and going to the rehearsals. You know what I'm saying, it was the typical story of a son looking up to his dad. So the years that my father was around, my father was my biggest influence.

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Benjamin Bloom

We need to be much clearer about what we do and do not know so that we don't continually confuse the two. If I could have one wish for education, it would be the systematic ordering of our basic knowledge in such a way that what is known and true can be acted on, while what is superstition, fad, and myth can be recognized as such and used only when there is nothing else to support us in our frustration and despair.

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Even if her children or grandchildren are willing to spend their own money to keep grandma alive, when bureaucrats control the necessary technology or medication they may decide that it is not for sale.

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Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

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