"Physical fitness is in. I recently had a physical fit myself."

-- Steve Allen

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“I read once that the voice is a mirror of our inner being. I can very much relate to that because, when you sing, you feel very exposed. You feel like you can’t hide anything. But then it also works the other way round and, when we work on our voice, our inner being also changes.”
“The devil tempts us to bring out the worst in us, but the Father tests us to bring out the best in us.”
“Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1991). “A Soldier of the Great War”, Harcourt
“There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.”
“The idea of full dress in preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of the conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the Great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.”

Source : "Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer".
“There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.”
“I am sure that the Ukrainian nation deserves a better life. That is why I have voted for good changes and for stability.”
“Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then pretending that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Red Mars”, p.314, Spectra

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