People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.


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In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
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The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w...
EBEN ALEXANDER
I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
EBEN ALEXANDER
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio...
EBEN ALEXANDER
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER
The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE
There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE
Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or ...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER
It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER
Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER
I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER
When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE
England in the late 1940s was famously grim. As I remember it, London back then was a very dirty pla...
ALEXANDER COCKBURN
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE
To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE
A man's home is his wife's castle
ALEXANDER CHASE
Memory is the thing you forget with
ALEXANDER CHASE
People, like sheep, tend to follow a leader - occasionally in the right direction.
ALEXANDER CHASE
Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.
ALEXANDER CHASE
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
ALEXANDER POPE
How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tale.
ALEXANDER POPE