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Commentary © 2007 Richard J. Chandler & Bonnett Chandler
A famous rodeo performer, Will Rogers, is in the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing three ropes at once… one around the neck of a horse, another around the horse’s rider, and a third around all four legs of the horse. Even better known as a social commentator and American humorist, he wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.
“People that pay for things never complain. It’s the guy you give something to that you can’t please.”
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An American feminist icon, Gloria Steinem, was founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine.
“I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.”
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - )
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Louis Armstrong influenced jazz to move towards solo instrumental improvisations in contrast to the group improvisational playing characteristic of Dixieland jazz. He was the most well known Jazz performer of his time and championed the introduction of Jazz to more mainstream audiences.
“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is.”
- Louis Armstrong (1901-1971)
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This outstanding relationships quotation originated from one or more of the writers of the TV show, The X-Files…
“It seems to me that the best relationships, the ones that last, are frequently the ones rooted in friendship. You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than the night before, like a switch has been flicked somewhere, and the person who was just a friend is suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.”
- The X-Files dialog (the character Dana Katherine Scully)
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Jacques Delille, a French poet and translator known for using a great many words to describe a single thing, surprises lovers of brevity through this uncharacteristically ‘to the point’ quotation…
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
- Jacques Delille (1738-1813) (1738 - 1813) French poet.
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Margery Allingham was a British writer who produced many novels, stories and plays, mostly in the mystery and crime genre. She earned her first fee for a story when she was eight years old.
“Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust. The end is gain, of course. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be made strong, in fact. But the process is like all other human births, painful and long and dangerous.”
- Margery Allingham (1904-1966)
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Ingmar Bergman, the prolific Swedish screen and stage writer, film and theater director, [62 films, 170 plays] was known for his poignant portrayals of human suffering and triumph. He is considered a master of cinematography.
“Old age is like climbing a mountain. You climb from ledge to ledge. The higher you get, the more tired and breathless you become, but your views become more extensive.”
- Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)
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One of the 20th centuries great moral voices, Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), was a philosopher, pacifist, mathematician and writer. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950.
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
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