"You must own it to play it."

-- Roy Haynes

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“I just wrote about childhood as I had known it.”

Source : "Beverly Cleary at 95: A Talk With the Author Who Created Ramona Quimby". Interview with Rachel Brown, www.theatlantic.com. July 6, 2011.
“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”
“i'm back at my cliff still throwing things off i listen to the sounds they make on their way down i follow him with my eyes 'till they crash imagine what my body would sound like slamming against those rocks.”
“All I know of morality I learned from football”
“Facebook is a CRM for people. The days of the anonymous web is over. People expect more.”
“A social democratic party without deep roots in the working class movement would quickly fade into an unrepresentative intellectual sect”

Source : Roy Jenkins (1972). “What Matters Now. -”, Harper San Francisco
“These are things that only dogs and women understand because we tap into the pain directly, we connect to pain directly from its source, and so it is at once brilliant and brutal and clear, like white-hot metal spraying out of a fire hose, we can appreciate the aesthetic while taking the worst of it straight in the face. Men, on the other hand, are all filters and deflectors and timed release.”
“We're the most violent nation on earth. There's no getting away from that. But you've got to look at it on a broader level.”

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