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“The secret of the mountain is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no "meaning," they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.”
Source : Peter Matthiessen (2008). “The Snow Leopard”, p.234, Penguin
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“We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong.”
Source : Mira Bartok (2011). “The Memory Palace”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
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“I love to teach - that's my role.”
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“A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.”
Source : Nancy Lopez (2000). “The Complete Golfer”, Galahad Books
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“So I have talked with Betsey and Betsey has talked with me, And we have agreed together that we can't never agree”
Source : Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.18, Applewood Books
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“If I found the cure for dystrophy tomorrow, I would do a telethon in four weeks for acute pain that in this country is a bigger problem than cancer, heart, sickle cell, anemia, name it. It is - it's hitting 70 million Americans.”
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“Why, when the economist gives advice to his society, is he so often cooly ignored? He never ceases to preach free trade, and protectionism is growing in the United States. He deplores the perverse effects of minimum wage laws, and the legal minimum is regularly raised each 3 or 5 years. He brands usury laws as a medieval superstition, but no state hurries to repeal its law.”
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“We must take the profit out of prejudice.”
Source : Smedley Butler, Mark Twain, Bertrand Russell (2015). “War is a Racket!: And Other Essential Reading”, p.71, The Forlorn Press
