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My mother wanted me to be a concert pianist. ↗

— Bernie Worrell

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Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#code #culture #ethics #every #needs

You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. ↗

— Leopold Von Ranke

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I was not surprised by the results of the Horizon experiments, but I remain willing to observe and consider any and all other tests that are done under similarly precise conditions. ↗

— James Randi

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The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds. ↗

— James Randi

#fifteen #just #microwave #new #new age

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. ↗

— A. Philip Randolph

#continuous #economic #evolving #fact #final

Well, first of all, I don't want to debate the word conservative, but by my definition, a conservative is someone who wants to conserve the Constitution of the United States and the American tradition and law that no one is above the law. ↗

— Dan Rather

#american #american tradition #conservative #conserve #constitution

One can see that a canvas is six feet by eight feet, say, quite accurately. But you can spend two minutes and think it's five, or thirty seconds and it's just a different bed for activities there. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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You might lose your spontaneity and, instead of composing first-rate Gershwin, end up with second rate Ravel. ↗

— Maurice Ravel

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Gentlemen can now only behave as such, or be tolerated as such, in circumstances that are manifestly contrived or unreal. ↗

— Simon Raven

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