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Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history. ↗

— August Wilson

#away #forget #history #insist #itself

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#financial #press #proclaims #regularly

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice. ↗

— George Gissing

#hopeless #intellectual #most #vice

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#excellence #higher-living #success #beauty

Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#comes #marble #material #more #out

Even in my most inflamed moment I never supported a racist mass murderer. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#i #inflamed #mass #moment #most

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#disagree #events #feel #guess #history

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others. ↗