"You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played"

-- Miles Davis

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“The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.”
“I think that we do have a great country, but there's a lot of things that we're not so great at. Unfortunately, education is one of them.”
“society ... is tolerant of crimes, and long suffering with dullness, but it shows no mercy to those who are different from other people.”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (2009). “Zoe: The History of Two Lives”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com
“You should ask for a performance evaluation. Ask your boss, where do I stand? I need to know what I can do better and what I'm doing well.”

Source : Source: www.bostonglobe.com
“People are always shocked to hear I'm an athlete by profession and even more shocked when they hear I'm a fencer from the United States. I challenge the stereotype that Muslim women are oppressed and that a Muslim can be American by birth. It's amazing how many assumptions people make, but I embrace the opportunity to use this Olympic platform to educate.”

Source : "The Road to Rio". Interview with Avery Stone, www.yahoo.com. August 3, 2016.
“She smiled darkly and shook her head. 'I'm not crazy. I'm not. Of course what else would a crazy person claim? That's the Kafkaesque genius of it all. If you're not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point. Do you see what I'm saying?”
“I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.”
“Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.”

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