"Work hard - beat out half the team. Be committed, play fair as a team player - Beat out another quarter of the team. The last quarter is your desire and beliefs, and where you are playing."

-- John Kessel

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“Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family,' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.”
“Whatever may happen to you, remember always: Donâ€™t adjust! Revolt against the reality!”

Source : The last letter to Yitzhak Cukierman, April 23, 1943.
“It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.”

Source : Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”
“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,â€”but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”

Source : Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.223, Everyman's Library
“Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.”
“Eighty percent of the information we receive comes through our eyes. And if you compare light energy to musical scales, it would only be one octave that the naked eye can see, which is right in the middle.”
“I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions.”
“Run with your heart instead of your mind. When you think with your mind, you think of the things you can and can't do. But when you run with your heart you forget about what you can't do, and you just go out and do it.”

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