“But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.”
— Vanessa Carlton
Author: Vanessa Carlton
Category: mom
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“It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.”
— H. P. Blavatsky
Author: H. P. Blavatsky
Category: religion
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“Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.”
— Nicolaus Copernicus
Author: Nicolaus Copernicus
Category: fear
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“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
Category: sympathy
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