"My whole family could sing. My family harmonized without any instruments to accompany them."

-- Ethel Waters

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“And no renown can render you well-known: For if you think that fame can lengthen life By mortal famousness immortalized, The day will come that takes your fame as well, And there a second death for you awaits.”
“Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our Nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.”
“Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.”
“The idea is more important than the style you're playing in.”
“Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.”

Source : Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1957.
“The fundamental difference between Islamic government, on the one hand, and constitutional monarchy and republics, on the other, is this: whereas the representatives of the people or the monarch in such regimes engage in legislation, in Islam the legislative power and competence to establish laws belong exclusively to God Almighty.”
“What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.”
“a writer once asked what I'd say if i ever met my biggest hater. I paused, thought deeply and said, "probably 'suk a dog dik, motherfuker”

Source : Ezra Koenig @arzE, twitter.com. May 10, 2013.

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