"The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries."

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"The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries."

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"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning."

B. B. King, American Musician

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"So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too."

Stevie Ray Vaughan, American Musician

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"I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did."

Harold Nicholas, American Dancer

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"I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers."

Eddie Floyd, American Musician

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"The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan."

William Kirby, English Scientist

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"I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world."

Kathleen Turner, American Actress

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"Our publicist at Warner Brothers is a young guy who has worked so hard for seven years with us and when we saw him backstage he broke down and cried. He couldn't believe it happened. It was seeing him so overcome when we realised how much it really meant."

Wayne Coyne, American Musician

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"Everything the Coen brothers do is brilliant."

Jackie Weaver, Australian Actress

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"I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs."

Franka Potente, German Actress

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"If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts."

Todd Barry, American Comedian

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"Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter - to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water."

Music

"Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don't live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too."

Time

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

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"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it."

People

"I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage " very important things to me " and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me. All of us live spiritually by what others have given us, often unwittingly, in the significant hours of our life. At the time these significant hours may not even be perceived. We may not recognize them until years later when we look back, as one remembers some long-ago music or a boyhood landscape. We all owe to others much of the gentleness and wisdom that we have made our own; and we may well ask ourselves what will others owe to us."

Gratitude

"The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up."

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"As we acquire more knowledge things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious."

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"It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rest upon this foundation: that we experience Him in our lives as Will-to-love."

Consciousness

"O heavenly Father,protect and bless all thingsthat have breath: guard themfrom all evil and let them sleep in peace."

Blessing

"True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live."

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