"For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going."

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Source : Bergen Evans (1954). “The Spoor of Spooks: And Other Nonsense”, New York : Knopf

Bergen Evans

#Leader Quotes #Way Quotes #Following Quotes

“And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.”
“Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.”
“O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.90
“I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.”
“And the fact that Haiti was occupied for 19 years by the United States, from 1915 to 1934.”
“the Bible is used as a means of reinforcing their [women's] subordination to men through divine sanction.”
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
“You don't know anything about pain until you've seen your own baby drowned in a tub... and you definitely don't know anything about how to wash a baby.”

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