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  • Butch Trucks One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Eugene J. Mccarthy One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that had frozen together in a rosette, each one's nose tucked under the rump of the one in front. We have a lot of pigs in politics.
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  • Bobby Schilling One thing we're going to focus on is the middle class and the crushing prices and stagnant wages they're facing. What motivates me is looking at my 3-year-old son and thinking about what we're passing on to him and his future wife and their future kids.
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  • Robert Burton One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
    Robert Burton
    English clergyman and writer (1577 - 1640)
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  • Francesco Guicciardini One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
    Francesco Guicciardini
    Italian politician, soldier and historian (1483 - 1540)
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  • Alexander Pope One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Elbert Hubbard One who limits himself to his chosen mode of ignorance.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Robert Browning One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • B. Carroll Reece One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • Frederick Farrar One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
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  • Assata Shakur Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Malcolm X Only a fool would let his enemy teach his children.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • William Somerset Maugham Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Max Weber Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • John Butler Yeats Only for his dreams is a man responsible, his actions are what he must do.
    John Butler Yeats
    Irish painter (1839 - 1922)
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  • Berthold Auerbach Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts, and strives without fear to do justice to them.
    Berthold Auerbach
    German-Jewish writer and poet (1812 - 1882)
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  • Martin Amis Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
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    Martin Amis
    British novelist (1949 - 2023)
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  • John Dryden Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Willa Cather Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family - but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Ayn Rand Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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