"Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate."

-- Eddie Harris

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“When I say that terrorism is war against civilization, I may be met by the objection that terrorists are often idealists pursuing worthy ultimate aims -- national or regional independence, and so forth. I do not accept this argument. I cannot agree that a terrorist can ever be an idealist, or that the objects sought can ever justify terrorism. The impact of terrorism, not merely on individual nations, but on humanity as a whole, is intrinsically evil, necessarily evil and wholly evil.”
“Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music!”
“I knew exactly what I was doing. You can't accidentally take a whole bottle of pills.”

Source : "Fantasia Barrino on Suicide Attempt: 'I Just Wanted to Be Away From the Noise'" by Luchina Fisher and Lauren Sher, abcnews.go.com. August 24, 2010.
“Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.”
“The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.”

Source : "Random Thoughts". Column at Jewish World Review, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 31, 1998.
“When I pray, I never pray for myself, always for others, or else I hold a silly, naive, or deadly serious dialogue with what is deepest inside me, which for the sake of convenience I call God. Praying to God for something for yourself strikes me as being too childish for words. To pray for another's well-being is something I find childish as well; one should only pray that another should have enough strength to shoulder his burden. If you do that, you lend him some of your own strength.”
“Small town people assume you are a friend if you simply remember their names.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2013). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion - Second Edition”, p.43, Broadview Press
“We believe in the power of 21st-century international norms. Russian President Vladimir Putin believes in the power of lies and brute force, and implicitly asks, in the spirit of Josef Stalin, 'How many divisions do international norms have?'”

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