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If you would have your son to walk honourably through the world, you must not attempt to clear the stones from his path, but teach him to walk firmly over them - not insist upon leading him by the hand, but let him learn to go alone. ↗

— Anne Bronte

#attempt #clear #firmly #go #hand

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#been #difficult #education #eradicate #firm

The Republicans I know or the conservatives I know, they disagree with what the Republicans are doing in Washington because we are compromising too much. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#compromising #conservatives #disagree #doing #i

Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful. ↗

— Alton Brown

#wasteful #wrong

How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles! ↗

— John Mason Brown

#circles #city #goes #how #laid

I read a lot; fiction and non-fiction are the mediums I find most edifying and inspiring. I watch movies and listen to music and take lots and lots of walks. Nature is a nice reset button for me, it's how I get a lot of thinking done. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#done #fiction #find #get #how

Do you think Duke Ellington didn't listen to Debussy? Louis Armstrong loved opera, did you know that? Name me a jazz pianist who wasn't influenced by European music! ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#debussy #did #duke #duke ellington #ellington

I got a poster from Columbia Records, and there's Miles Davis, Charlie Mingus, Ellington, Count Basie - everybody in that poster has died, I'm the only one left. And great players like Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan, it's hard to believe they're gone because we were all so close. But I believe in the future and the tradition will go on. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #believe #charlie #close #columbia

The only band that we have never played with but have always wanted to is the Rolling Stones. ↗

— Lars Ulrich

#band #never #only #played #rolling

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes. ↗

— Pat Buchanan

#breakfast #clinton #experience #foreign #foreign policy