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"If the humanity does not poison the minds of the children with all sort of religious craps, the new generations of humanity will soon create a new world order where reason and logic will be the sole guide, the sole savior!"

"A powerful process automatically takes care of progress, productivity and profits."

"We must eradicate ignorance and illiteracy from our nations and continent to the nearest minimum for us to have a national development."

"The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."

"A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known."

"A little here and a little there will always accumulate, so why be surprised when steady, small steps take you to great places?"
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"I always read all these books about the slaves. My mother is very educated. My father would talk to us like we were grown men. We never knew what he was talking about half the time."

"Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."

"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."

"I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet, because I thought the girls wouldn't like me. So I never practiced."

"When I auditioned for my high school band the band director was excited because my father was known to be a great musician. When he heard me, he said 'Are you sure you're Ellis's son?'"

"I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do."

"This rebuilding of New Orleans gives us the perfect opportunity to see if we're ready to extend the legacy of Dr. King."

"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?"

"There's the tradition in jazz of having the Battle of the Bands, and you do not want to get your head cut when you're playing."
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