"There is nothing new... everything has roots in the past."

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Dave Liebman

#Past Quotes #Roots Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“When things come to the worse, they generally mend.”
“Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.”
“When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.”
“People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result.”
“Those who remain silent are responsible.”
“Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.”
“When you are more awake at nights, they'll toss and turn, they'll think more, they get frustrated. And when that starts to happen, you really don't sleep even more because you're making your body tense and your mind is getting more and more active.”
“The most noble title any child can have, Demosthenes wrote, is third.”

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