"My parents, especially my dad, had a big influence on my hockey career. He introduced me to the game when I was younger, and I stuck with it."

-- Steven Stamkos

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“She stood, squared her shoulders. â€œWeâ€™ll do it. Together.â€ And then she did something that shocked them both. She rose on her tiptoes and pressed a swift kiss on his lips. â€œThank you for returning to help me.â€ When she tried to move away, he latched onto her forearms and held her in place. His eyes were gleaming. "Next time you decide to do thatâ€¦" What?" she said, stiffening. "Give you a little warning?" No." He grinned. "Linger.”
“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”
“If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living”

Source : Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.318, Modern Library
“The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals.”
“He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.”
“Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.”
“To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod our heads when a grandfather dies. Then we row for years on the midsummer pond, ignorant and content.”

Source : Donald Hall (2015). “The Selected Poems of Donald Hall”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.”

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