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  • If I concerned myself with the thoughts and attitudes of others, dependant upon the experts, walking behind them like a pied piper's rat, i wouldn't even feel enclined to rise out of bed for the day; Ladies, we need to realize we do not need the so called experts; fat lot of good they've done anyway; we need good old fashioned, tried and true, timeless commonsense and the strength to be ourselves!!

    Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903 2009

  • It's impossible to walk up Princes Street without stopping to wonder if you should review that apprentice piper's endless piobaireachd, or whether an event for roadworks and car horns was art or just the city's usual mid-August speciality.

    Philip Glass Ensemble: the Qatsi trilogy; BBCSO/Volkov; Melvyn Tan; T'ang Quartet; Bo Skovhus; Montreal SO/Nagano; Llyr William; Ten Plagues – review 2011

  • However, with Lakeman's fiddle as hypnotic as the pied piper's, and the man playing with such gusto, it's undeniably compelling.

    Seth Lakeman 2010

  • While ignorance may be bliss, it's short term only, and when the piper's bill comes due it is enormous. by

    OpEdNews - Diary: Noam Chomsky's Major Address at New York's Riverside Church, 6/12/09 2009

  • Marrying, the Owl and Cat danced, lit by silver of the moon, but life for us won't be like that, for, dancing to the piper's tune, we'll have to pay him soon, because the rich themselves are getting poorer, and there's no Wizard now in Oz who's capable to be our Fuehrer -- not that we'd want one, God forbid!

    Gershon Hepner: Rising Tide 2009

  • I would add that the central activity of this chapter involves the search for, rescue and return to home of a small lost otter with a keen sense of adventure -- who of course is found entranced at the piper's feet at the gates of dawn.

    The WELL: Mountains Of The Moon Robert Hunter 2009

  • What happens to patient, wonderful James, and his uncanny piper's talent?

    The WritingYA Weblog: The Lies of Faerie tanita davis 2008

  • What happens to patient, wonderful James, and his uncanny piper's talent?

    Archive 2008-08-01 tanita davis 2008

  • They did little but harm this country and now, the piper's come a-calling and there's the devil to pay.

    Dylan Loewe: Realizing the Revolution 2008

  • The town has mown an access path into a portion of the undiscovered country, and the fragrance of the mown grass-turning-into-hay, along with clover and bedstraw/madder, and the wild roses, well, it's better than will-o'-the-wisp or the pied piper's flute for calling you to come on in, come on in...

    pied piper, infinity asakiyume 2007

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