"We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it is not worth it. So we fight the long defeat."

-- Paul Farmer

#Team Quotes #Fighting Quotes #Winning Quotes

“A cigar has "...a fire at one end and a fool at the other."”
“The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.”
“Truth is that which affirms propositionally the nature of reality as it is.”
“A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.8, Penguin
“In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.”
“Anything where we're the butt of the joke, no one tells us about it.”
“I believe that all men, black and brown, and white, are brothers, varying, through Time and Opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and in the possibility of infinite development.”
“Imitation is flattery, and The Hills Have Eyes is a classic.”

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