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Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ↗

— William Gibson

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It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. ↗

— Andre Gide

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I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

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I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Mastery passes often for egotism. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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