"Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers."

-- Max Roach

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“When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.”
“When I first turned elite in gymnastics, when I was 14, that's when I really became more inspired than ever. I just always kept that in the back of my mind, and always thought about making the 2012 team.”
“I love any scene where there's a physical confrontation. It reminds me that I'm in show business and I play pretend for a living.”
“A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.”
“Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.”
“Physical attraction that strong is addictive. And knowing that kind of magic isnâ€™t just a fantasy makes me want to find it again. But what about being with someone who makes me a better person? What about sharing my life with someone who adores me as much as I adore him, whom I can always count on, who helps me find my way when Iâ€™m lost?”
“Linear programming is viewed as a revolutionary development giving man the ability to state general objectives and to find, by means of the simplex method, optimal policy decisions for a broad class of practical decision problems of great complexity. In the real world, planning tends to be ad hoc because of the many special-interest groups with their multiple objectives.”

Source : "Reminiscences about the origins of linear programming" by George Dantzig, Mathematical programming: the state of the art, p. 78-86, 1983.
“Don't die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.”

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