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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
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"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth."
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"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
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"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
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"Poor men's reasons are not heard."
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"Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
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"I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands."
Mouse
"I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got."
Sound
"My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room."
Sound
"The saxophone is an imperfect instrument, especially the tenor and soprano, as far as intonation goes. The challenge is to sing on an imperfect instrument that is outside of your body."
Body
"If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice."
Play
"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction."
Art
"I appreciate men like Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins very much."
Men
"You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles."
Death
"A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas."
Ideas
"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."
Musicians
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