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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

"After that, I started going downtown and doing a lot of theater shows in Chicago. When you go downtown there, it's like you're in New York, it's like going to Broadway."

"A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone."

"I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our fifty-two states."

"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."

"His last 2 shows in the U.S. were in Chicago and St. Louis. I don't know what made me go on the trip with him, but I'm so very glad I did. They were two of the finest concerts I've ever seen."
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"Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason."

"The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us."

"The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become."

"The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease."

"By virtue of being born to humanity, every human being has a right to the development and fulfillment of his potentialities as a human being."

"There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring."
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