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Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#democracy #democratic #elections #holding #iraq

I like to listen the blues and some classical. ↗

— Peter Tork

#classical #i #like #listen #some

As Buddy Rich, for instance, broke into the business at the age of three, I think it was, on drums, so indeed did I break into the business at the age of four as a singer. ↗

— Mel Torme

#break #broke #buddy #buddy rich #business

I want to sing for the broadest possible audience. ↗

— Mel Torme

#broadest #i #possible #sing #want

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man. ↗

— Rip Torn

#aside #dress #ever #go #gonna

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#interested #only #passage #rites #stories

We have made many glass vessels... with tubes two cubits long. These were filled with mercury, the open end was closed with the finger, and the tubes were then inverted in a vessel where there was mercury. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#end #filled #finger #glass #inverted

Success for an athlete follows many years of hard work and dedication. ↗

— Michael Diamond

#dedication #follows #hard #hard work #many

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you'd laugh and say nothing that simple, but you've been told many times before messiah's point you to the door though no one's got the guts to leave the temple. ↗

— Pete Townshend

#before #door #got #guts #high