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Miles Davis


Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.

Mark Twain


He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.

Charles F. Kettering


My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Dodie Smith


I have found that sitting in a place that you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi"


It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Isaac Asimov


I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.

G. K. Chesterton, Heretics (1905)


There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Sally Kempton


It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Leo Rosten


Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Tyron Edwards


Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

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Much memory loss is normal: book explains the problem amusingly and ...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:07:00 GMT
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - She quotes Dr. Norman Relkin, head of a memory disorders program at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, as blaming such slips largely on normal shrinkage of the human brain.

Aldrich puts together powerful exhibition

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:37:00 GMT
Carroll County Online - Aldrich represents many cultures in her works and in the quotations she has chosen to accompany them. There is not one war here, but all war. The installation is devastatingly ...

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