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What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#creative #give #hire #i #interesting

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both. ↗

— Horace Mann

#find #greatness #seek #truth #will

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. ↗

— Horace Mann

#cable #cannot #day #each #habit

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. ↗

— Horace Mann

#determination #give #happen #let us #make

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ↗

— Horace Mann

#die #humanity #some #until #victory

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears. ↗

— Leslie Mann

#buy #cab #cookies #did #furniture

When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. ↗

— Horace Mann

#begin #brought #chastisement #child #conduct

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. ↗

— Horace Mann

#every #human #human power #knowledge #power

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ↗

— Horace Mann

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