"I train every day of my life as they have never trained a day in theirs."

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Source : "He was called "The Experiment": Nobody believed that a human being could be so strong!". www.telegraf.rs. March 20, 2015.

Aleksandr Karelin

“I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?”
“Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.”

Source : "Ig Nobels Highlight Science of a Special Kind". "Talk of the Nation: Science Friday", www.npr.org. November 24, 2006.
“In school we did all sorts of things, molds, slab building. We were not very proficient on the wheel because the woman who taught was not proficient on the wheel. And so we learned from her assistant who had learned from her assistant the year before and so on, and that was not very good training.”
“Is your integrity at the level of the thing you are praying for?”
“In temptations against chastity, the spiritual masters advise us, not so much to contend with the bad thought, as to turn the mind to some spiritual, or, at least, indifferent object. It is useful to combat other bad thoughts face to face, but not thoughts of impurity.”
“Family comes first so I only have this specific window of time available to me and because of that I actually get more done.”
“ISIS went to school on how we were collecting intelligence on terrorist organizations by using telecommunications technologies. And when they learned that from the [Edward] Snowden disclosures, they were able to adapt to it and essentially go silent.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Ah, my sister used to hit me harder.”

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