Satchel Paige Quotes
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You really should be able to feel the higher power of music and be moved by it, rather than listening to me waffle on and having to explain it.
Maynard James Keenan
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When I was studying at Berklee, I got the feeling I couldn't play the [guitar] at all, because I could not use my own things as they didn't fit any set pattern. When I joined [Chico Hamilton], he helped me immensely to develop my own style. He never forced me in any set way. At all times, he encouraged me to be myself on the instrument.
Gabor Szabo
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Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.
[Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.
David Jeremiah
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Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution.
Vladimir Nabokov
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There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.
Anaximander
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They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.
William Shakespeare
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Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion.
John Milton
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Reason is the slave of passion.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
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Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.
Samuel Gompers
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When lightning strikes you want to be there, right there in the room. You, not everybody`s going to say yes to you. Just don`t ever say no to yourself, ever.
Chris Matthews
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If an enemy strikes your left cheek, offer him your right.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The period of strikes reflected well on Costa Rica because it showed how we can resolve these disputes peacefully and democratically.
Carlos Alvarado
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The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.
Charles Dickens
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I think things are going to go right for me again. I'm not old. I'm old enough, but I photograph young, thank God, and I still have a public. I still get fan mail.
Betty Hutton
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Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.
Bede Jarrett
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We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq.
Tony Blair
