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“There have been many great musicians that, Clifford Brown is one great example, I mean he died very early, 25.”

Mean Has Beens Example Musician Died Brown Great Music Great Musician

Author:Sonny Rollins

“As a final example, let's remember Jeremy Glick, whose father died in the World Trade Center. After his name appeared in an ad opposing war in Iraq, Mr. Glick was invited on The Factor .. I'm not going to dress you down anymore.”

World War Remember Father Names Example Died Dresses Trade Finals Iraq Factors Ads Invited Opposing World Trade World Trade Center Father Died

Author:Bill O'Reilly

“My grandfather for example only died twice, once during the war and once in the 1980s.”

War Example Died Grandfather My Grandfather

Author:James Nicoll

“Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that.”

Love Mean I Can Peace Example Kings Shots Died Fantastic Not Sure Luther Pacifist Peace Love

Book:The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

Source: The Playboy interviews with John Lennon and Yōko Ono

“Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'”

Feels Trying Kind Children Reason Remember Fire Example Particular Died Wine Oneself Genuine No Reason Dread Incarnation Recollection Remember You Remembers You Aversion

Author:Aleister Crowley

“There is a distinction to be drawn between true collectors and accumulators. Collectors are discriminating; accumulators act at random. The Collyer brothers, who died among the tons of newspapers and trash with which they filled every cubic foot of their house so that they could scarcely move, were a classic example of accumulators, but there are many of us whose houses are filled with all manner of things that we "can't bear to throw away.”

Moving House Feet Example Brother Bears Died Filled Newspapers Classic Distinction Trash Collectors

Author:Russell Lynes

“The military is the largest polluter in the country, and so you have a lot of military waste contaminating reservations - as, for example, on the Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, where 5,000 sheep died in some kind of experimental military nerve gas test 10 years ago. Many of our communities are dealing with that kind of waste, and an absence of political will to clean them up.”

“Surrogate fathers and other male figures stepped in to give guidance after my dad died. Businessmen taught me to honor my commitments; others gave me opportunities beyond my wildest imaginations. Authors and speakers set good, solid examples of high standards and lofty goals for me; mature, committed Christians nurtured and instructed me.”

“If army ants are wandering around and they get lost, they start to follow a simple rule:Just do what the ant in front of you does. The ants eventually end up in a circle. There's this famous example of one that was 1,200 feet long and lasted for two days; the ants just kept marching around and around in a circle until they died.”

Ifs Long Doe Two Ends Lost Simple Feet Fronts Example Army Died Circles Wander Ants Two Days Wandering Around

Author:James Surowiecki