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Letter "T" » The Duke of
«You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.»
Author: Cab Calloway
(Drummer, Entertainer, Singer)
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«Oh man, it's made my life easier....Imagine if a Duke Ellington or a Stravinsky had had a system like that.»
Author: Harry Connick, Jr.
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«After tens of millions of [abortion] 'procedures,' has America lost anything? Another Edison, perhaps? A Gershwin? A Babe Ruth? A Duke Ellington? ? As it is, we will never know what abortion has cost us all.»
Author: Joseph Sobran
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«A fully equipped Duke costs as much to keep up as two Dreadnoughts, and Dukes are just as great a terror, and they last longer.»
Author: David Lloyd George
(Prime Minister)
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«Anyone who clings to the historically untrue -- and -- thoroughly immoral doctrine that violence never solves anything I would advise to conjure up the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler would referee. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor; and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.»
Author: Robert A. Heinlein
(Writer)
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Violence
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«The Duke of Wellington brought to the post of first minister immortal fame, -a quality of success which would almost seem to include all others.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Fame,
Success
| Keywords:
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«When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
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