"Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat."

-- Carl Deuker

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“Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.”
“Voices are like fingerprints, from Cagney to Bogart. They never lost it. My voice is instrumental in categorizing me.”
“I dare you to call Ask-A-Nurse and tell them you feel a presence in your womb region.”
“It is a mystery why any Americans would support the concept of the EU.”
“Here were also moments of, you know, you have an exhibition: no sale, no reviews. It's hard not to get blue, and I think the kids were very aware of those periods. So if there's anything they've picked up, it's a kind of resiliency. That seems like a pretty good legacy.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“And as I'm striving to change the world, I will be happy.”

Source : "Sam Berns, 17, Whose Life With Progeria Was the Subject of ‘Life According to Sam,’ Has Died" by Paula Bernstein, www.indiewire.com. January 14, 2014.
“The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.”

Source : Myth in Primitive Psychology ch. 5 (1926)
“My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him.”

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