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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#enterprises #expect #few #great #had

My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960. ↗

— Davy Jones

#ever #first #performance #stage

One advantage of talking to yourself is that you know at least somebody's listening. ↗

— Franklin P. Jones

#know #least #listening #somebody #talking

Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#arizona #better #came #conditions #disadvantage

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#anything #every #every time #felt #frightened

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#enjoy #i #live #making #music

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#different #different people #go #go home #home

I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession. ↗

— Nafisa Joseph

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Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent. ↗

— Arthur Keith

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