"I am the worlds laziest writer."

-- Oscar Peterson

#World Quotes #Jazz Quotes

“Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.”
“As consumers we get more demanding all the time. We want better quality. We want it faster. And cheaper. Plus, we want more choices. Whoever comes along that can satisfy all these 'wants' gets our business.”
“It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not a reduction, but an end-to absolute poverty...I have always found that a committed, powerful group of leaders, can make a huge difference.”
“Whatever happens, take responsibility.”
“Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon”
“Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.”

Source : Sarah Vowell (2005). “Assassination Vacation”, p.236, Simon and Schuster
“Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.”
“Militias, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms. [...] To preserve liberty it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.”

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