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-- Miles Davis

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“I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Train yourselves. Don't wait to be fed knowledge out of a book. Get out and seek it. Make explorations. Do your own research work. Train your hands and your mind. Become curious. Invent your own problems and solve them. You can see things going on all about you. Inquire into them. Seek out answers to your own questions. There are many phenomena going on in nature the explanation of which cannot be found in books. Find out why these phenomena take place. Information a boy gets by himself is enormously more valuable than that which is taught to him in school.”
“Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.”
“I would say, when it comes to comedy, I think Matthew Broderick was great.”

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“It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.”
“Is the depressing part that he's only half right - it's not that she doesn't need rescuing but that nobody else will be able to do it? She has always somehow known that she is the one who will have to rescue herself. Or maybe what's depressing is that this knowledge seems like it should make life easier, and instead it makes it harder.”
“To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.”
“Pride is a wound and vanity is the scab on it. One's life picks at the scab to open that wound again and again. Among men it seldom heals and often grows septic.”

Source : "The Maze Maker: A Novel".

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