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"There are several things I think I would have done if I had the chance again. I would have been a little more patient about getting out into the world. I would have seen to it that I had a more formal education. I would have become an accomplished mu"
"I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that... I'm perfect."
"You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone."
"Now the only decent way to get something done is to get it done by somebody who quite likes doing it."
"The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone."
"If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful."
"Pure pragmatism can't imagine a bold future. Pure idealism can't get anything done. It is the delicate blend of both that drives innovation."
"Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?"
"How much should you earn? As much as you possibly can. It doesn't matter whether you earn $10,000 a year or $100,000 a year as long as you've done the best you can."
"I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis."
"The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires."
"You have not known what you are - you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk."
"Impossible is not a fact... it's an opinion. What's impossible only remains so until someone finds a way to do what others are sure can't be done."
"Far more violence has been done in obeying the law than in breaking the law."
"In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words."
"We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed."
"The words are purposes./The words are maps./I came to see the damage that was done/and the treasures that prevail."
"I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be."
"We're going to have to do a whole lot more, and give nature at least a chance to repair some of the damage we've done."
"A man is not what he is because of the teachers he has had, but because of what he has done"
