"It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff."

-- Shirley Horn

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“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeatsâ€¦these are the facts.”
“Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.”

Source : Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc
“There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.”
“Yoga philosophy teaches that real man is not his body, but that the immortal I, of which each human being is conscious to some degree according to his mental evolution, is not the body but merely occupies and uses the body as an instrument.”

Source : "The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga". Book by Vishnudevananda Saraswati, 1995.
“I'm finding it increasingly difficult to simply walk down the street. In New York, I dashed in to buy a big pair of sunglasses to conceal myself, but the guy behind the counter shouted 'Hey! It's Dr. House.'”
“A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.”

Source : "Filters Against Folly". Book by Garrett Hardin, 1985.
“Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.”

Source : Matthew Henry (2016). “Book of Job - Complete Bible Commentary Verse by Verse”, p.188, Editora Dracaena
“There is not a situation in life where there isn't a hymn and a Scripture to meet the need. I'm thankful for the Word of God, and I praise Him for the privilege of still being able to memorize.”

Source : "Cliff Barrows Still Singing at 90". Interview with Bob Paulson, billygraham.org. April 28, 2013.

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