"I believe that music should be grown on trees, to be plucked like a fruit without the extravagance of harvest."

-- Eyvind Kang

#Believe Quotes #Tree Quotes #Extravagance Quotes

“The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.”

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“What's important is not just to develop the technology; it's to develop the processes.”
“Just because I believed in what I was doing on the field and dedicated myself to playing the game, does that mean I'm cocky? Does that mean I'm arrogant?”
“In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not to declare whether, considered in themselves, they appear probable; but to decide whether it is not more reasonable to believe what God speaks than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions. No doctrine can be a proper object of our faith, which is not more reasonable to believe than to reject.”
“You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.”
“Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.”
“The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.”

Source : Jackie Robinson, Alfred Duckett (2013). “I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson”, p.33, Harper Collins
“They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?”

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