"The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world."

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Source : Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

Joe Louis

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“The five happiest people I have ever met all had this strange little quirk of referring to their jobs as a 'calling.'”
“But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down.”

Source : Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”
“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”
“She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.”
“There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you say and have to wear a name tag when you do it. But that's certainly not all conversations. People might be prepared to ethically stand behind what they say, but might be in a position that they can't afford to lose their house over it. Speech shouldn't just be for people with lawyers.”
“That's part of the policy: To keep switching gears.”
“For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earths true past was dug up in abundance.”
“I have never met anyone who wanted to save the world without my financial support.”

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