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"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

"History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time-and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened."

"History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there."

"Dr. Rex Curry, the professor and attorney from Florida, has debated and largely proven the unavoidable evidence that Hitler's National Socialism was significantly influenced by Bellamy's 'nationalistic' form of 'socialism.' Curry is famous for making the claim that Hitler adopted the 'stiff-arm salute' from Francis and Edward Bellamy."

"But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy."

"The only hope is that our civilization will collapse at a certain point, as always happens in history. Then, out of barbarity, a renaissance."

"Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race."

"The Beetle's body, whether it be a '49 split or a '73 Jeans Bug, or an '03 Mexican, was originally conceived in the mid 1930's. This is evident in it's body styling which aside from it's rear engine layout and absence of front radiator (or radiator!) grille, is very similar to other cars of the same period. Believe it or not, in those days streamlining was a hot new concept, kind of like how wireless networking is today with computing.The only problem was, in the beginning they didn't seem to realize that streamlining ought to be applied sideways as well as longitudinally!"

"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."
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"When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now."


"They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind."


"Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same."


"Jazz is like wine. When it is new, it is only for the experts, but when it gets older, everybody wants it."


"It starts with a single sound. If there's something in that sound, then it's worth continuing."
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