"I always sang standards because the songs I wrote for myself weren't as easy to sing."

-- Carly Simon

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“I don't have a 'side'â€”I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.”
“The one that burned the hottest is the first to die.”
“Growth always involves the risk of failure.”

Source : Howard Thurman (1963). “Disciplines of the spirit”, Friends United Pr
“The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He throws off the feelings of the sick and imparts to them his own which are perfect health, and his explanation destroys their feelings or disease. . . . He is like a captain who knows his business and feels confident in a storm, and his confidence sustains the crew and ship when both would be lost if the captain should give way to his fears.”
“All artists are now free to express their own personality.”
“Taxpayers will not stand for - nor should they - the funding of poster sites, leaflets or advertising. What people will support is funding for political education, for training, for party organization.”
“I think it is said that Gauss had ten different proofs for the law of quadratic reciprocity. Any good theorem should have several proofs, the more the better. For two reasons: usually, different proofs have different strengths and weaknesses, and they generalise in different directions - they are not just repetitions of each other.”

Source : "Interview with Michael Atiyah and Isadore Singer". Interview with Martin Raussen, Christian Skau, www.researchgate.net. February 2005.
“Improper parental example in the home is a leading cause of the wandering of youth...”

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