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My father died during open-heart surgery on March 29 of my senior year in college. I was getting set to go to law school. I remember sitting in the waiting room when the doctor walked in. I said to myself, The worst possible thing just happened. What will you do? ↗

— Steve Wynn

#died #doctor #during #father #getting

The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject. ↗

— Jon Wynne-Tyson

#determined #effectiveness #facts #memory #number

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#having #himself #man #matter #military

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#am #awareness #both #chinese #conflict

Like, I have had moments, which I think most people have, where you'll be watching TV, and it'll be interrupted by some tragic event, and you'll actually find yourself thinking, 'I don't want to hear about this train being derailed! What happened to 'The Flintstones?'' ↗

— Al Yankovic

#actually #being #event #find #had

Whenever I do a parody it's not meant to make you hate anybody's music really. ↗

— Al Yankovic

#hate #i #i do #make #meant

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic. ↗

— Yanni

#being #dread #emotion #get #i

I'm not a good collaborator in general. ↗

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#general #good #i

The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do so, but because Hamas does not wish for further fronts to be opened against it around the world. ↗

— Ahmed Yassin

#against #around #avoiding #because #causing

It's strange, but once you learn to fight, you seem to attract enemies...Sooner or later, those who master the art of combat must end up fighting. ↗

— Nahoko Uehashi

#fighting-battles #art