"The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage; A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height."

-- William Wordsworth

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“Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'”
“By convention sweet is sweet, by convention bitter is bitter, by convention hot is hot, by convention cold is cold, by convention colour is colour. But in reality there are atoms and the void. That is, the objects of sense are supposed to be real and it is customary to regard them as such, but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real.”
“It is true there is a scent in the desert, though there may be no flower or tree or blade of grass within miles. It is the essence of the untrodden, untarnished earth herself!”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”
“The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them.”
“Gold is money and nothing else.”
“If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.”
“I swear I have never told a player to attack another player. In fact, I have told my players if they ever hear me saying something like this, they can break a stick over my skull. I ask only that they play aggressively.”

Source : HHOF Time Capsule - The 70s - Great Teams - Philadelphia Flyers, Hockey Hall of Fame, 1973-1976.
“Writing is never, ever easy but I wake up every morning grateful for the gift of being able to do this.”

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