Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times (ten, actually), trying to get it just right. He failed.
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.
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I feel a ridiculous greed and possessiveness come over me. I want to know it all, possess it all, embrace the entire svene imtimately, deeply, totally, as a man desires a beautiful woman.
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