"If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines if it's good or bad."

-- Miles Davis

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“Excellence is the asymptotic state that never quite reaches perfection.”
“I used to consider myself as great as a pyramid, and now I realize that I am only a shadow that passes.”
“I invested in the album. Look, if I never did anything again in music, it wouldnâ€™t affect my life materially. I live a very satisfying life. Not because Iâ€™ve made a few dollars, but because I have a wife who loves me and children who wait for me to come home. And that is beautiful. I think thatâ€™s the American dream: to be at peace at home.”
“If im lucky, i will never have to see you again. Because if i do, that means we are at war, and id have to hurt you”
“The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.”
“May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness.”

Source : Words inscribed upon the mantle of gonfalonier given to his son Cesare Borgia on March 29, 1499. "The Life of Cesare Borgia". Book by Rafael Sabatini, Chapter IV: "Gonfalonier of the Church", 1912.
“The one way the world hasn't changed: teaching is still the most important job.”
“I'm not interested in observed reality.”

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