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Yes, I was forced to take piano lessons for 8 years as a child. ↗

— Jim Coleman

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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

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Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. ↗

— Robert Collier

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In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time. ↗

— Robert Collier

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See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession. ↗

— Robert Collier

#belonging #possession #see #them #things

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass. ↗

— Robert Collier

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