"Always take a good look at what you're about to eat. It's not so important to know what it is, but it's critical to know what it was"

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Source : Texas Bix Bender (2000). “Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On!”, p.95, Gibbs Smith

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“Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.”
“the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.”
“Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing. I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea. I have no one style. I play as I feel.”

Source : FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Feb 12, 2016
“when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
“Doing your best means never stop trying.”
“I understand what rappers are talking about. I think rap is less about educating people about the black community and more about making money.”
“The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.”

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