"The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting."
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"When I first organized the King Cole Trio back in 1937, we were strictly what you would call an instrumental group. To break the monotony, I would sing a few songs here and there between the playing. I sang things I had known over the years. I wasn't trying to give it any special treatment, just singing. I noticed thereafter people started requesting more singing, and it was just one of those things."
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"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times. The ordinary person today lives better than a king did a century ago but is ungrateful!"
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"Proud is the spirit of Zeus-fostered kings - their honor comes from Zeus, and Zeus, god of council, loves them."
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"Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all."
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"What are you doing for others?"
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"I had a lot of fun with Frank Sinatra, because he was such a hooligan, and so to himself, he was the king, and everything was his way, and I enjoyed watching that."
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"Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him."
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"I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death."
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"Every man, who parrots the cry of ‘stand by the President’ without adding the proviso ‘so far as he serves the Republic’ takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude."
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"Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories."
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"Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's field were mirrored in his silver shield. But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are."
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"In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?"
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"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings."
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"I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
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"The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends."
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"The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent."
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"Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king."
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"The rule Of the many is not well. One must be chief In war and one the king."
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"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle."
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