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“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
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“Hold yourself for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” – Henry Ward Beecher
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Bringing you the best of 2011! “Don’t talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.” – Maria Callas
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“Do not become paralyzed and enchained by the set patterns which have been woven of old. No, build from your own youthful feeling, your own groping thought and your own flowering perception.” – Lotte Lehmann
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“Music… will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.” ― Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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“The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.” – Audre Lorde
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“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.” – Helen Keller
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“If I weren’t reasonably placid, I don’t think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you’ve got to be absolutely like a horse.” – Joan Sutherland
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In honor of Operagasm’s Spooky! Scary! theme this month the Quote of the Week will feature some of our favorite composer’s famous last words. Mwah, ha… ha… ha… (creepy laughter)…. “Everything is finished! Ah! How miserable I am!” – Modest Mussorgsky
