"The awful shadow of some unseen Power Floats, tho' unseen, amongst us."

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“For me, the hardest part of an injury is watching the races go by that I had hoped to compete in. The only thing that makes it easier is thinking of how certain struggles make other accomplishments mean so much.”
“It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.”

Source : "Collected Mathematical Papers".
“People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.”

Source : Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.220, Penguin UK
“With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.”
“All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!”
“The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I mean I grew up in Ireland, so one would have to be consciously blinkered not to have reflected on the issue of political violence because that was the story since I was 19 years old or 20.”
“The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.”

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