"It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go"

-- Mark Spitz

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“Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.”
“The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.”
“I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?”
“You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.”
“It is people's hearts that move the age.”
“Get out of harms way.”
“You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK
“And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the curse of marriage and the after-bane of death.”

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