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@Lovandfear I will feel you here, even if you lie and say you are gone.

“if you’re a writer, say ‘i miss you’ without writing ‘i miss you’.”

Pablo Picasso literally revealed the foundational key to all success:

@365DaysOfAretha Once my family discovered Aretha, her music never left the turntable. That voice brings back memories that defy translation. She is everything.

On this day in 2018, Aretha Franklin’s granddaughter Victorie took a video of her grandmother at the keyboard singing “Nessun Dorma.” It remains the last publicly seen footage of the Queen of Soul.

@TheTNHoller By the age of 5, a child develops that voice in their head that says, “I shouldn’t say that.” This man is just underdeveloped - that’s all.

TRUMP: “He’d be dead by June with a heart problem.” JOHNSON: “That wasn’t public.” TRUMP: *laughs, slaps Johnson on the back* (Sociopaths say the wildest things)

@JARWinnnnn @Globalstats11 Socrates is there. Just ahead of Elvis. No Ayn Rand. Shrug.

@Globalstats11 No Socrates? No Pythagoras? Very few roman emperors? No Ramses II or Hammurabi? No Chinese or Japanese emperors? No Michael Jackson? Tesla only at 93 and no mention of either Euler or Gauss? No Ayn Rand? Elon Musk? Fakest list EVER.

Top 100 Most Influential Persons in History 1. Jesus 2. Napoleon 3. Muhammad 4. William Shakespeare 5. Abraham Lincoln 6. George Washington 7. Adolf Hitler 8. Aristotle 9. Alexander the Great 10. Thomas Jefferson 11. Henry VIII of England 12. Charles Darwin 13. Elizabeth I of England 14. Karl Marx 15. Julius Caesar 16. Queen Victoria 17. Martin Luther 18. Joseph Stalin 19. Albert Einstein 20. Christopher Columbus 21. Isaac Newton 22. Charlemagne 23. Theodore Roosevelt 24. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 25. Plato 26. Louis XIV of France 27. Ludwig van Beethoven 28. Ulysses S. Grant 29. Leonardo da Vinci 30. Augustus 31. Carl Linnaeus 32. Ronald Reagan 33. Charles Dickens 34. Paul the Apostle 35. Benjamin Franklin 36. George W. Bush 37. Winston Churchill 38. Genghis Khan 39. Charles I of England 40. Thomas Edison 41. James I of England 42. Friedrich Nietzsche 43. Franklin D. Roosevelt 44. Sigmund Freud 45. Alexander Hamilton 46. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 47. Woodrow Wilson 48. Johann Sebastian Bach 49. Galileo Galilei 50. Oliver Cromwell 51. James Madison 52. Gautama Buddha 53. Mark Twain 54. Edgar Allan Poe 55. Joseph Smith, Jr. 56. Adam Smith 57. David, King of Israel 58. George III of the United Kingdom 59. Immanuel Kant 60. James Cook 61. John Adams 62. Richard Wagner 63. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 64. Voltaire 65. Saint Peter 66. Andrew Jackson 67. Constantine the Great 68. Socrates 69. Elvis Presley 70. William the Conqueror 71. John F. Kennedy 72. Augustine of Hippo 73. Vincent van Gogh 74. Nicolaus Copernicus 75. Vladimir Lenin 76. Robert E. Lee 77. Oscar Wilde 78. Charles II of England 79. Cicero 80. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 81. Francis Bacon 82. Richard Nixon 83. Louis XVI of France 84. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 85. King Arthur 86. Michelangelo 87. Philip II of Spain 88. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 89. Ali, founder of Sufism 90. Thomas Aquinas 91. Pope John Paul II 92. René Descartes 93. Nikola Tesla 94. Harry S. Truman 95. Joan of Arc 96. Dante Alighieri 97. Otto von Bismarck 98. Grover Cleveland 99. John Calvin 100. John Locke Source: Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward are the authors of Who’s Bigger? Where Historical Figures Really Rank, Cambridge University Press, 2013. Disclaimer: The views expressed are solely their own.

'What I look for in musicians is a sense of infinity' - Pat Metheny #jazz #art #quote

One of the greatest orators of the 20th century delivering a compelling speech. Through the saxophone.

“I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” — Nina Simone

If you think DOGE was an attempt to rein in waste in government spending you missed the plot. It was an attempt to curtail critical thinking. Well done.

Grumpy fans: “Today’s kids don’t know anything about good music” Today’s Kids:

"On the organ, no one knows how many different sounds you can get. It's an infinite number of tones. The only problem is taste. Most people think of electricity as the ability to drown everybody else out. I don't play like that." Shirley Scott March 14, 1934 - March 10, 2002

When I think about Hegseth and Kushner playing war games with no experience, I remember this Al Pacino scene in Carlito’s Way. “You a gangster now…You can’t learn about it in school and you can’t have a late start.” #quotes #moviequotes #iran youtube.com/shorts/B1goRz_… via @YouTube

Today we celebrate women across the globe — past, present, and future — whose voices, courage, and leadership continue to shape the world. In the spirit of Dr. Angelou, here’s to women everywhere: phenomenal in every way. ✨ 💐 #InternationalWomensDay

@AriFleischer holding a President accountable for his statements while excusing his predecessor’s incoherent rants is disingenuous. This era will be remembered for the death of irony and crowning of hypocrisy.

@imelizabethlane @JamesTate121 To be fair, con men are called “artists” for a reason. Their skill is making otherwise intelligent people abandon their good judgment. I’m not mad at folks who are finally seeing the light. Why? Because in the pantheon of con artists, this man is a Picasso.

I’m not very talented generally, but I’ve always had one skill. I can read people quickly. I usually see through their bullshit and recognize them for who they really are. I have to admit, this is the first time I’ve majorly f**ked up about someone. I should have seen who this asshole was when I watched this video. It’s crazy how your brain tricks you into believing what you want to believe. But better late than never. Reporter asks Trump: How are you holding up over the last day and a half, sir? (After Charlie's Assassination) His answer: I think very good. By the way, right there you see all the trucks, they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House... This asshole betrayed everybody.

We’ll see you in April for some double bass. Get tickets: christianmcbride.com/shows 4/7 - Santa Fe, NM 4/8 - Tucson, AZ 4/9 - Mesa, AZ  4/11 - Costa Mesa, CA 4/18 - St. Louis, MO 4/21 - Philadelphia, PA

.@JohnColtrane describes his creative approach to writing his music. #coltrane100

@JasmineForUS Thank you for being a champion for every day Americans.

This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win. I’m committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect democrats up and down the ballot.

"And then I heard Jimmy Garrison, and I began to see that the bass was more than what I was hearing." - William Parker Happy Birthday Jimmy Garrison born March 3, 1934

@Acyn His inability to clearly articulate the objectives is disturbing. What’s more concerning? He is out of his depth; he is learning on the job. At moments like these we need serious professionals at the helm. In this administration, they are in short supply.

Reporter: The president said we will leave Iran when we complete all of our objectives. What are our the objectives? Hegseth: Well, I laid out the objectives, as did the chairman. They're completely nested. I mean, Iran has an ability to project power against us and our allies in ways that we can't we can't tolerate. So whether that's ballistic missiles and drones, so offensive capabilities, their Navy,