"I haven't even read everything I wrote."

-- Karl Barth

“I prepare so no one can take what is mine, no one can replace my mind, my heart.”
“I always carry a Tom Ford lipstick and Tachta face blotters to get me through the day.”
“Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection is the only workable explanation that has ever been proposed for the remarkable fact of our own existence, indeed the existence of all life wherever it may turn up in the universe.”

Source : John Maynard Smith (1993). “The Theory of Evolution”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
“I don't know if the music moves forward anymore. I haven't heard anything for years - except refinement - coming out of the jazz world.”
“Coaches can teach you two things: confidence and technique.”
“Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.”
“Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only deciding factor.”

Source : Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.71, University of Michigan Press
“Life (and running) is not all about time but about our experiences along the way.”

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