The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.
Author: James M. Barrie

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
Author: William Shakespeare

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.
Author: Cicero

Science is the search for truth - it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find t he right so
Author: Linus Pauling

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers. This is not to say that we should abandon every goal endorsed by society; rather, it means that, in addition to or i
Author: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Q: What is the difference between the first and last desk of a viola section? A: Half a measure.
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Q: What is the difference between a dog and a viola? A: The dog knows when to stop scratching.
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Q: Why are orchestra intermissions only twenty minutes long? A: So the violists don't need to be retrained.
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Q: How can you tell if a violin is out of tune? A: The bow is moving.
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Q: What do a viola and a lawsuit have in common? A: Everyone is happy when the case is closed.
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