"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil."

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Ray Charles

#Music Quotes #Roots Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“History may well record that we served liberty and saved freedom when we undertook a crash program in the field of education . . .. I hope this bill is only the forerunner of better things to come.”
“If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you're really not ready to be successful.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kevin Hart from Feb 25, 2013
“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.”
“Palmer was the big gun as far as getting the tour to where it is today. He was the most charismatic player ever. He did everything the public wanted him to do.”
“If you could disagree with kings, were gods so far above?”

Source : Elizabeth Bear (2012). “Range of Ghosts”, p.289, Macmillan
“When the ship docks, I'm getting off with you. This is crazy. I know it doesn't make any sense, that's why I trust it.”
“An avowed homosexual, that would never be accepted in hockey - never! Because it's a milieu where everyone is often naked.”
“Men are noisy, narrow-band devices, but their nervous systems have very many parallel and simultaneously active channels. Relative to men, computing machines are very fast and very accurate, but they are constrained to perform only one or a few elementary operations at a time. Men are flexible, capable of "programming themselves contingently" on the basis of newly received information. Computing machines are single-minded, constrained by their "pre-programming."”

Source : J. C. R. Licklider, Robert W. Taylor (1990). “In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990”

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