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"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure."

"Once the last trace of emotion has been eradicated, nothing remains of thought but absolute tautology."

"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system."

"When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman."
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"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

"My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians."

"My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress."

"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."

"What, other than injustice, could be the reason that the displaced citizens of New Orleans cannot be accommodated by the richest nation in the world?"
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