"Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description."

-- Barry Goldwater

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“The music goes into people in a totally different way than words. There's air, there's the sound of words, there's touch, there's music. All of those things have a really distinct way of meeting and entering people's bodies and souls. It's the most beautiful part about humans; that we make music.”
“After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.
“Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.”

Source : Amy Chua (2011). “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, Bloomsbury Publishing
“We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.”
“I try to be a man of mystery. I try to keep the various projects I'm up to as close to the vest as possible until it's time to reveal them.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“If you can think of times in your life that youâ€™ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern, just because they were valuable as human beings. The ability to do that with ourselves. To treat ourselves the way we would treat a really good, precious friend. Or a tiny child of ours that we absolutely loved more than life itself. And I think itâ€™s probably possible to achieve that. I think part of the job weâ€™re here for is to learn how to do it”
“This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?”
“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. Weâ€™ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”

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