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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#ambiguous #complain #entire #everyone #exactly

Diversity gives our city a competitive edge. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#competitive #diversity #edge #gives #our

And I think we as a people need to stop being disingenuous about what the Constitution provides for. It does not provide for this all-encompassing power that we've seen exercised over the last several decades. It's what's gotten us into this bankrupt position. ↗

— Joe Miller

#bankrupt #being #constitution #decades #disingenuous

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past. ↗

— Pat Morita

#because #corner #creature #cry #earth

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ↗

— King Solomon

#consider #day #joyful #prosperity

This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation. ↗

— Walter Murch

#applies #delicacy #doing #editing #film

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#even #lives #make #our #our lives

The fact that we don't keep repeating tests in the same arena is not because the probability of the hypothesis showing its falsity in other arenas goes up after it has passed tests in one arena. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#arena #arenas #because #fact #falsity

Most people think of success and failure as opposites, but they both are products of the same process. ↗

— Roger von Oech

#failure #most #opposites #people #process

As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed at twenty-two, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at twenty-two. Aging is not just decay, you know. It's growth. It's more than the negative that you're going to diem it's also the positive that you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #perspective #positive-thinking #age