"Music should go right through you, leave some of itself inside you, and take some of you with it when it leaves."

-- Henry Threadgill

“There is terrible suffering in our world today. Tragic things happen to good people. God does not cause them, nor does He always prevent them. He does, however, strengthen us and bless us with His peace, through earnest prayer.”
“Memory is the residue of thought”

Source : Daniel T. Willingham (2009). “Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons
“It is not that I belong to the past, but the past that belongs to me.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.251, Courier Corporation
“Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens’ lives. Liberty has meaning only if we still believe in it when terrible things happen and a false government security blanket beckons.”
“Reality is a harsh mistress. She demands our honesty. She demands our work. She demands that we give up comforts, that we let ourselves feel pain, that we accept how small we are and how little control we have over our lives. And she demands that we make her our top priority. But she is more beautiful, and more powerful, and more surprising, and more fascinating, and more endlessly rewarding, than anything we could ever make up about her.”
“Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.”
“I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.”
“Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.”

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