Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . .
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