"I like things that are difficult, physically and mentally. Things that are really challenging, things that really maybe take a long time but really push me to my limits."

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“Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.”
“Fortitude. ... It means fixity of purpose. It means endurance. It means having the strength to live with what constrains you.”
“We can only shine the brightest as SNSD when we stand on one stage as nine.”
“There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.”
“Chess strength in general and chess strength in a specific match are by no means one and the same thing.”
“Next to the word 'Nature,' 'the Great Chain of Being' was the sacred phrase of the eighteenth century, playing a part somewhat analogous to that of the blessed word 'evolution' in the late nineteenth.”
“I've dealt with Hollywood about having my work made into a film or cartoon but nothing came of it. That's not to say I wouldn't like to see something happen.”
“No man is wise enough by himself.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 878-82, Miles Gloriosus, III. 3. 12, 1922.

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