"And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that."

-- Buddy Rich

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“I believe that God locates himself at the spot where you recognize your own fallibility....And the paradox of it all has been that whenever I give up I seem to do better.”
“And so it was interesting for me to find myself very enamored of a Republican president, but Ronald Reagan was someone I thought captured the spirit of America.”
“In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice, madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed.”
“Itâ€™s time to move the debate past the dogmatic view that carbon dioxide is evil and toward a world view that accepts the need for energy that is cheap, abundant, and reliable.”
“The Spurs are a great WNBA team.”
“It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.”
“It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.”

Source : "Five on a Treasure Island". Book by Enid Blyton, www.theguardian.com. 1942.
“Hilbert once had a student in mathematics who stopped coming to his lectures, and he was finally told the young man had gone off to become a poet. Hilbert is reported to have remarked: 'I never thought he had enough imagination to be a mathematician.'”

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