"Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

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“They are at the end of the gallery; retired to their tea and scandal, according to their ancient custom.”
“Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the 'owners'. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.”
“But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.”
“Everyone things children are sweet as Necco Wafers, but I've lived long enough to know the truth: kids are rotten. The only difference between grown-ups and kids is that grown-ups go to jail for murder. Kids get away with it.”
“You have to fight the green monster with your mind, not your fists.”
“All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.”
“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”
“This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing.”

Source : "A Fireside Chat With Roy Haynes". Interview with Fred Jung, www.allaboutjazz.com. November 29, 2003.

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