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“If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.”
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“Purely historical thought is nihilistic; it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history.”
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“I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.”
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“The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts.”
Source : "La Semaine; ou, Création du monde". Poem by Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, 1578.
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“nursing was regarded as simply an extension of the unpaid services performed by the housewife - a characteristic attitude that haunts the profession to this day.”
Source : Gerda Lerner (2014). “The Majority Finds Its Past: Placing Women in History”, p.16, UNC Press Books
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“This thing with everyone knowing you, it's weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I don't really know myself that well.”
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“Writing fiction means putting a lot of what you believe about the world at risk, because you have to follow your characters.”
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“Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.”
Source : Song: What A Wonderful World This Would Be, 1960
