"A lion may die of an ass's kick."

-- Robert Browning

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“Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.”
“True freedom has more to do with following the North Star than going whichever way the wind blows.Â Sometimes it seems like freedom is blowing with the winds of the day, but that kind of freedom is really an illusion.Â It turns your boat in circles.Â Freedom is sailing toward your dreams.”
“For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin. I didn't have a father, it looked good to me. If I had read Johnny Thunders' book The Heroin Diaries, I don't think I would have done heroin.”
“'The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.'”
“The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.”

Source : David Gelernter (2010). “The Muse in the Machine: Computerizing the Poetry of Human Thought”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
“Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy”
“Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken to the raw observations that you have accumulated instead of relying on the conclusions you have reached from the exogenous premises absorbed through teaching and bookish learning.”
“Each team has a net liner, a goalie, and five attackers. We have two defenders on the ice and three forwards. Our forwards are left winger, centre man and a right winger. We work as units of five. In ice hockey you go out and you go as hard as you can for 35 to 45 seconds, then we change.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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