"It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me."

-- Dan O'Brien

#Motivational Quotes #Athlete Quotes #Men Quotes

“The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.30, Cambridge University Press
“What I wasn't prepared for were the feelings of anxiety that it stirred in me. I wasn't prepared for the initial feeling of I don't want to have to do that again. I was scared.”
“Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.”
“So DeCSS didn't introduce anything new for pirating and had already been available.”

Source : "Meet the kid behind the DVD hack". Interview with J.S. Kelly, www.cnn.com. January 31, 2000.
“Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile. Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.”
“How much more courage it took to be kind than to be cruel.”

Source : Louise Penny (2013). “How the Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel”, p.16, Macmillan
“We're born alone and we die alone. So in between, let's spend time with people that make us feel good... or at least put-out.”
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.”

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