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“The key is being able to endure psychologically. When you're not riding well, you think, why suffer? Why push yourself for four or five hours? The mountains are the pinnacle of suffering”
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“(on Blades of Glory) Playing the ***** in the movie is fun.”
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“All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.”
Source : Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers
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“I'm not sure I understand how responsibility for our choices makes sense if they are not determined.”
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“I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was "Hey, man, can I sit in?" They're like, "No, man." So I started fooling around with the bass.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“Everyone is born into a certain era. I wouldn't want to see anyone faced with the circumstances that prevailed at the time, when there were few or no alternatives.”
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“My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.”
Source : Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.63, Random House
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“When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!”
