"To provide its happy people with perpetual fun is now the deepest purpose of Western civilization."

-- Jeremy Seabrook

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“You can see the ball go past them, or the man, but you'll never see both man and ball go past at the same time. So if the ball goes past, the man won't, or if the man goes past they'll take the ball.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.”
“In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.”
“I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.”
“If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.”
“Yeah, we call that mulling around. Okay guys, come on now. What we're going to do early in this game is mull around, okay? And later, we're going call that monkey-off-our-back play.”
“Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.”

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