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-- Buddy Rich

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“It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to comfort and save those selected to be the first generation; an accuser to remind them why they suffer; and a destroyer to revoke the promise of survival and redemption, and to teach them the awful truth about furious sheltering grace.”

Source : Chris Adrian (2012). “The Children's Hospital”, p.32, Granta Books
“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
“I'm building a dream with elevators in it.”
“Just like dust, we settle in this town.”

Source : Song: Merry Go 'Round, Album: Same Trailer Different Park, 2013
“To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.”
“Each must act as he thinks best; and if he is wrong, so much the worse for him. We stand on a mountain pass in the midst of whirling snow and blinding mist through which we get glimpses now and then of paths which may be deceptive. If we stand still we shall be frozen to death. If we take the wrong road we shall be dashed to pieces. We do not certainly know whether there is any right one. What must we do? Be strong and of a good courage. Act for the best, hope for the best, and take what comes. . . . If death ends all, we cannot meet death better.”
“We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, "That man is a Red, that man is a Communist." You never hear a real American talk like that.”

Source : Speech to the Jersey City Chamber of Commerce (12 January 1938), as quoted in "The Last Three Miles : Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway" by Steven Hart, (p. 137), 2007.
“When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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