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I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think 'whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might,' infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one's neighbour as one's self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbour; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's 1973ish and I am huddled in the corner of the cloakroom with five or six friends around a crappy transistor radio listening to this track and singing along. A door crashes open and Mrs I've-forgotten-her-name-but-she-was-head-of-girls hurls herself out of her office (next to the girls' cloakroom so she could spy on us) and hysterically screams about us all being social deviants who are destined only to work propping up the counter in Chelsea Girl.
It's still a brilliant track - Mrs-what's-her-name is long dead and Chelsea Girl is but a fond but distant memory.
well at least you could listen to nice things with your schoolmates together... for me sharing music with my schoolmates was impossible untill I reached university.
Listening to Paganinis Caprice No 24. Great piece of music. Very moody. I recommend even people who arent into most classical music (like me most of the time ) to check htis on eout. It really ist incredible
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
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