Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee. - Anthony Sampson

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I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.

Anthony Sampson

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

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In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

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Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.

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Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as 'Call Me God') to KCMG ('Kindly Call Me God') to. . the GCMG ('God Calls Me God').

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It has been the bankers' destiny. . . to find themselves on the dangerous edge of the world, pointing up the contradictions and cross-purposes. They are not often loved for it.

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I am your brother. I was supposed to be your brother before either of us was born. Karmic debt. It appears I was Vlad the Impaler or Genghis Khan in a past life.

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Bennie Maupin

. . . I do like the low frequencies. It's from years and years of observing audiences when they hear a lower frequency coming from an instrument it tends to pull them in. You have to listen a little more attentively. High frequency instruments hit you so hard, after a while the ear has a tendency to want to shut down. And that's what happens. I've been able to observe very carefully how people tend to get very tired of listening to high frequencies a lot.

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You are free to do what you want, but you are not free to want what you want.

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