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  The Intersection of Pipes and High Ways  

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The Intersection of Pipes and High Ways
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I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us‐don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

People don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue ‐ a highly intellectual virtue ‐ out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt… They envy achievement, and their dream of greatness is a world where all men have become their acknowledged inferiors. They don't know that that dream is the infallible proof of mediocrity, because that sort of world is what the man of achievement would not be able to bear.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficult… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
Theodore Roosevelt

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Love Story, LoLa & HAUSER

Emmanuel, Chris Botti, Caroline Campbell, Sinfonia Varsovia

The Lonely Shepherd, Andre Rieu & Gheorghe Zamfir

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::bfrank
01/17/21 11:24 PM GMT
Very nice looking render, John. Your quotes give me a lot of room for thought.
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When fear comes to me I will stubbornly choose Faith Instead!!!!
.tigger3
01/18/21 12:45 AM GMT
As usual you have added quotes so well thought out to go with this terrific work of yours. tigs=^..^=
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.koca
01/18/21 7:22 AM GMT
Both your work and the choice of quotes is brilliant, John.
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::corngrowth
01/18/21 9:39 AM GMT
John, another great render from you. I join me in the comments of the above friends about the quotes. Nice to hear the famous Dutch musician André Rieu in the by you perfectly chosen music links.
André Rieu was recently in the Dutch newspapers. Due to the Covid-19 (Corona) pandemic, he and his many concert members have been forced to stay at home. This means no more income, while he will continue to pay his concert members. In order to continue to do this, he put his original Stradivarius violin for sale. I hope the pandemic will end soon, but it will take some time.
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