"At eighty things do not occur; they recur."

-- Alan Bennett

“... education fails in so far as it does not stir in students a sharp awareness of their obligations to society and furnish at least a few guideposts pointing toward the implementation of these obligations.”
“Switch to piano! No. Really, if you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice. Of course, it would be best if you could actually sing with your own voice. The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. Therefore, the challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument or 'voice' that is outside of your body. I love that challenge and have for over forty-five years. As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.”
“A historian can never claim to have the last word on anything as he is limited by his sources and further so by his viewpoint.”

Source : Ambeth R. Ocampo (2001). “Meaning and History: The Rizal Lectures”
“You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pÃ¢tÃ©; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.”
“Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.”
“I see the canvas and I begin... It's a necessary evil to get into the work, and it's pretty marvelous to be able to get out of it.”
“I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time.”
“Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.”

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