"Sometimes it can feel like the whole globe is spinning with irredeemable losses, capricious natural disasters and crimes so outrageously evil they dismantle any attempt to solve or explain them."

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Source : "Yao Ming: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 10, 2009.

Karen Russell

#Loss Quotes #Evil Quotes #Spinning Quotes

“It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois.”
“It's kind of fun when you're playing characters that aren't quite on the up and up and people still like you.”
“But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.”
“Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.”
“For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.”
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
“No matter what advantages you are born with-- money, intelligence, an appealing personality, a sunny outlook, or good social connections-- none of these provides a magic key to an easy existence. Somehow life manages to bring difficult problems, the causes of untold suffering and struggle. How you meet your challenges makes all the difference between the promise of success and the specter of failure.”
“The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.”

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