"Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture."

-- Thelonious Monk

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“There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.”

Source : W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.62, Oxford University Press
“Embodiment means we no longer say, I had this experience; we say, I am this experience.”
“One torch can dissipate the accumulated darkness of a thousand aeons.”
“Chris Eagles flew in on Shaun Wright-Phillips, so hard he almost broke the hyphen.”
“I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.”
“For what level of mediocrity will you settle?”
“The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards.”

Source : "Computer Recreations: Of Worms, Viruses and Core War" by A. K. Dewdney, Scientific American, www.koth.org. March 1989.
“In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.”

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