"Rowing was not simple for me. I nodded whenever the instructor made a point, as if I understood, but I could as easily have assembled the space shuttle as have repeated the moves she was explaining."

-- Barry S. Strauss

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“Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.”
“Death is not an evil, because it frees us from all evils, and while it takes away good things, it takes away also the desire for them. Old age is the supreme evil, because it deprives us of all pleasures, leaving us only the appetite for them, and it brings with it all sufferings. Nevertheless, we fear death, and we desire old age.”

Source : Giacomo Leopardi (2002). “Thoughts: And, The Broom [or The Flower of the Desert]”, Hesperus Press
“People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.”

Source : Sparky Anderson, Dan Ewald (1990). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall
“Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.”
“The truth about not having everything you need, not being fully equipped or qualified or allowed is that these limits are the nebula of creative genius. When you have total freedom i.e: no limits at all. You stop trying to make the best of things”
“Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes.”
“Dammit, Jim. I'm a Guardian, not a doctor.”

Source : Katie Macalister (2005). “Fire Me Up: An Aisling Grey, Guardian, Novel”, p.186, Penguin
“The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival,”

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