"Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz."

-- Cassandra Wilson

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“A friend is someone whose face you can see in the dark.”

Source : Frances O'Roark Dowell (2013). “The Secret Language of Girls”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“People don't resent having nothing nearly as much as too little.- Ivy Crompton”
“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”

Source : Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.238, Penguin Books India
“Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.”
“Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse usâ€“to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.”

Source : Sarah J. Maas (2012). “Throne of Glass”, p.327, A&C Black
“In Mathematics it is always best to cheat.”
“A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.”

Source : Dorothea Lynde Dix (1845). “Remarks on Prisons and Prison Discipline in the United States”, p.11
“A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.”

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