"I grew up in Kansas City from when I was about two years old to my mid-teens. Kansas City at the time was an amazing place, because there was so much music going on there. As a kid, I was playing there all the time and learning a lot about music."

-- Eldar Djangirov

“It is always from the depths of its impotence that each power center draws its power, hence their extreme maliciousness, and vanity”
“Life - life - let there be life!”

Source : William Ernest Henley, Robert Louis Stevenson (1908). “The Works of W. E. Henley: Poems”
“If a girl starts out all casual with a guy and she doesn't tell him that she wants a relationship, it will never become a relationship. If you give the guy the impression that casual is okay with you, that's all he'll ever want. Be straight with him from the start. If he gets scared and runs away, he wasn't right for you.”
“I won't swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out”

Source : "Wolf Files: Celebrity Phobias" by Buck N.Wolf, abcnews.go.com. December 16, 2003.
“Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.”
“For me, the lame part of the Sixties was the political part, the social part. The real part was the spiritual part.”
“The leaders of the Democratic Party aren't soft on Communism. They're soft on Democracy.”
“My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or dynamic consequences of a set of assumptions or hypotheses, preparing the way for a decision or an insight. Moreover ... the operations that fill most of the time allegedly devoted to technical thinking are operations that can be performed more effectively by machines than by men.”

Source : "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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