"Experts and the educated elite have replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense."

-- Walter E. Williams

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“I knew what my times were and how my practices were progressing and how close I was to the goals I had set for the year. I swam hard. I always swam hard. If I didn't, I knew I would pay for it either the next day or the next meet.”
“Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.”

Source : "Ashlee Simpson Doesn't Envy Sister Jessica's Single-Girl Freedom" by Michael Y. Park, people.com. September 10, 2009.
“Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.”

Source : Amos Tversky, Eldar Shafir (2004). “Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings”, p.207, MIT Press
“I like all my characters in one way or another, or at least I understand them.”
“I just have to practice hard, get better, and go out there and win impressively - that's all it comes down to.”

Source : Interview with Johnny Testa, www.askmen.com.
“I'm one of the luckiest people on earth.”
“I am starting to realize that a lot of guys look up to me, ... Older guys, and even younger guys, are asking me questions and [they] ask me about how to handle situations. Im young, but that leadership role has been on me so I need to live up to it.”
“to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other”

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