"As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn."

-- Michael Connelly

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“War - after all, what is it that the people get? Why-widows, taxes, wooden legs and debt.”
“Couples with children who do win a divorce, cause such social havoc that they should have to pay a special divorce tax.”
“As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.”

Source : "Charlie Crist DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 06, 2012.
“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.”

Source : Lizette Woodworth Reese (1929). “A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days”
“Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination .”
“Each time I wander into blogdom, I'm reminded of the savage children stranded on an island in William Golding's "Lord of the Flies." Without adult supervision, they organize themselves into rival tribes, learn to hunt and kill, and eventually become murderous barbarians in the absence of a civilizing structure.”

Source : "Lord of the blogs". townhall.com. December 28, 2005.
“Assurance encourateth us in our combat; it delivers us not from it. We may have peace with God when we have done from the assaults of Satan.”
“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”

Source : O Magazine Interview, May 2004.

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