"I, of course, wanted to play real jazz. When we played pop tunes, and naturally we had to, I wanted those pops to kick! Not loud and fast, understand, but smoothly and with a definite punch."

-- Count Basie

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“When you get in the water with a wild animal, you're essentially giving yourself to that animal because, as humans, we're quite helpless and vulnerable in the water. You're at the seal's mercy. You're at the predator's mercy.”
“When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.”
“Faith is a beam radiating from the face of God.”

Source : Saint John Eudes, Aeterna Press “The Four Foundations of Sanctity”, Aeterna Press
“Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the forecast”
“In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.”
“It isn't easy to be the person who sometimes has to try to preserve your happiness at the expense of your fun.”

Source : Margaret Culkin Banning (1936). “Letters to Susan”
“I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.”
“Your anatomy is a mystery that nobody bothers explaining to us. Even when we think we have mastered one woman's body, every body is different.”

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