"If music is sound & came from silence, then silence is potentially greater than sound."

-- Keith Jarrett

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“No one that has ever been in combat ever wants to see war anywhere in the world. It is horrible. It's horrible looking at the pock-marked walls. It's horrible looking at the flesh embedded on walls in Bosnia. It was horrible looking and interviewing and talking to the kids who lost their parents, because Saddam Hussein decided to feed their parents to the lions in downtown Baghdad. To characterize particularly myself, but other groups, as wanting to advocate a war I think is not only disingenuous, I think it's a patent falsehood intentionally created to stigmatize a group of people.”
“Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.”
“I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.”
“It's a beautiful life, just as advertised.”
“Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.”
“Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.”

Source : Sidney Greenberg (1982). “Say yes to life: a book of thoughts for better living”, Random House Value Pub
“If you don't work on important problems, it's not likely that you'll do important work.”
“I feel that one should employ methods that reflect the physics of the problem at hand rather than the methods one happens to know.”

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