Music is essentially useless, as is life
George Santayana
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DAVID L. WOLPER This life is a process of learning.
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ITALO CALVINO Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
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ZYGMUNT BAUMAN You can't say life is useless because it ends in the grave.
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GEORGE ORWELL Music is love, love is music, music is my life and I love my life. Thank you and goodnight.
AJ MCLEAN Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
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JAMES DYSON Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
KATE WINSLET Life is short, the art long.
HIPPOCRATES Life is short and progress is slow.
GABRIEL LIPPMANN Time is long but life is short.
STEVIE WONDER Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
KATHARINE HEPBURN All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
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