"To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough."

-- Alonzo King

#Baby Quotes #Ballet Quotes #World Quotes

“Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.”

Source : "Pharr Davis thrives on trail". Interview with Anna Katherine Clemmons, www.espn.com. July 2, 2013.
“Jazz never ends... it just continues.”
“I was a surrogate for Obama; I helped fundraise. I'm still a supporter.”
“I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion. I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs.”
“In any case it is not normal to put into the satisfaction of mere curiosity the amount of time and effort that scientists put into their work.”
“The 'survival of the fittest' is beneficently inevitable; the capitalist is powerless against labor, unless the State . . . steps in, and helps him catch and fleece his victims. The old plea of despotism, that liberty is unsafe, reappears now in the mistaken notion that competition is hostile to labor.”

Source : Ezra Hervey Heywood (1985). “The Collected Works of Ezra H. Heywood”
“The maddening thing for someone with a Western scientific turn of mind is that itâ€™s not whatâ€™s in your pack that separates the quick from the dead. Itâ€™s not even whatâ€™s in your mind. Corny as it sounds, itâ€™s whatâ€™s in your heart.”

Source : Laurence Gonzales (2017). “Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why”, p.23, W. W. Norton & Company
“We are not justified by doing good works, but being justified we then do good.”

Source : William Jenkyn, James Sherman (1839). “An Exposition Upon the Epistle of Jude: Delivered in Christ-Church, London”, p.224

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