"A single seed of fact will produce in a season or two a harvest of calumnies; but sensible men will pay no attention to them."

-- James Anthony Froude

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“After the sleep of death we are to gather up our forces again with the incalculable results of this life, a crown of shame or glory upon our heads, and begin again on a new level of progress.”

Source : Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.306
“I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.”
“Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk”
“There is no room in my body for anything but you.”
“It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.”
“We are afraid that if we stop and really look at God in his Word, we might discover that he evokes greater awe and demands deeper worship than we are ready to give him.”
“My wife cooks. I can't cook. I can remix leftovers pretty good, though.”
“I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.”

Source : "The Wondrous Dr. J". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 26, 1992.

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