"For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind."

-- Norman Granz

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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
“The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator.”

Source : John T. Flynn (1949). “The Road Ahead”
“I know Andy Roddick's probably tired about me talking about how many times I beat him when we were kids”
“What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.”
“Why in general, when you`re putting together a White House staff and putting together a good one, you`re looking for someone there who is not someone who`s going to be heavy-handed.”
“The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of praise to their Creator. In the tops of the trees, the soughing of the wind is like the hushed prayers of the multitude in some vast cathedral. Here the heart of man becomes impressionable.”

Source : John Alan Walker, William Wendt (1992). “Documents on the Life and Art of William Wendt, 1865-1946, California's Painter Laureate of the Paysage Moralisé”
“The more ready you are to give yourselves to God and to others, the more you will discover the authentic meaning of life.”

Source : Jason Evert (2014). “Saint John Paul the Great: His Five Loves”, p.55, Totus Tuus Press
“I had made a decision, although I hardly knew it yet. It's often that way with decisions, they're made in some hidden part of us and the awareness secretes itself slowly into that conscious part of us that imagines it decides.”

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