"I'm not sure about whether Ukraine will ever be joining. As long as there's a frozen conflict on Ukrainian territory, they can't possibly join. And that's probably one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin is interested in having a frozen conflict there, so that there is no border security."

-- Kimberly Zisk Marten

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“Bill Evans described his tunes as vehicles; they are vehicles for self-expression, or expression of the self.”

Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated
“The importance of the romantic element does not rest upon conjecture. Pleasing testimonies abound. Hannah More traced her earliest impressions of virtue to works of fiction; and Adam Clarke gives a list of tales that won his boyish admiration. Books of entertainment led him to believe in a spiritual world; and he felt sure of having been a coward, but for romances. He declared that he had learned more of his duty to God, his neighbor and himself from Robinson Crusoe than from all the books, except the Bible, that were known to his youth.”
“Weâ€™re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people havenâ€™t, you need to do things the wrong way. Initiate a failure by doing something thatâ€™s very silly, unthinkable, naughty, dangerous. Watching why that fails can take you on a completely different path. Itâ€™s exciting, actually. To me, solving problems is a bit like a drug. Youâ€™re on it, and you canâ€™t get off.”
“-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starshipâ€¦ -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?”
“Hey, it isn't bad that I look young.”
“People are said to believe in God, or to disbelieve in Adam and Eve. But in such cases what is believed or disbelieved is that there is an entity answering a certain description. This, which can be believed or disbelieved is quite different from the actual entity (if any) which does answer the description. Thus the matter of belief is, in all cases, different in kind from the matter of sensation or presentation, and error is in no way analogous to hallucination. A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.”
“Had an amazing weekend hanging with my pals.”
“I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.”

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