"A lotta cats copy the Mona Lisa, but people still line up to see the original."

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Source : Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

Louis Armstrong

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“If there were even one spark of evidence from antiquity that Jesus even may have gotten married, then as a historian, I would have to weigh this evidence against the total absence of such information in either Scripture or the early church traditions. But there is no such spark-not a scintilla of evidence-anywhere in historical sources. Even where one might expect to find such claims in the bizarre, second-century, apocryphal gospels...there is no reference that Jesus ever got married.”
“Resisted temptations become lost opportunities ...”
“I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.”
“Like a wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we were, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.”

Source : "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Novelette by Harlan Ellison, 1985.
“30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.”
“Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing.”
“It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.”
“I am deeply worried because we are seeing an unleashing of violence by 2,000 to 3,000 thugs who come to smash and loot. My objective is to avoid mistakes by the police, so that people can protest in safety.”

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