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I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me. ↗

— Tony Parsons

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That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

#framework #group #interrelated #involve #logical

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. ↗

— Dolly Parton

#like #paving #road #start #walking

I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs. ↗

— Dolly Parton

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I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager. ↗

— Dolly Parton

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By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name. ↗

— Andy Partridge

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I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar. ↗

— Andy Partridge

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It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me. ↗

— Andy Partridge

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Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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