At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.
Placido Domingo
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his "divine service."
Friedrich Nietzsche