"Brook Lopez had a better game than Deron Williams"

-- Bill Simmons

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“Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.”
“California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.”
“I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be.”
“The price of freedom is responsibility, but it's a bargain, because freedom is priceless.”
“One thing I've experienced and I feel really grateful for now that I'm on my way out is that I felt that the justices gave that back to me. I really did. You know, of course, you can have some sharp exchanges. That's the nature of the thing, and that's fine. But really in the main I felt like the tone from them was, "Yeah. We may not agree with you, but we're going to have a discussion about this." And it did.”

Source : "Farewell to the General". Interview with Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. June 28, 2016.
“How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.”

Source : Patricia Highsmith (2015). “The Price of Salt: (Illustrated Edition)”, p.221, She Winked Press
“I came, then, to serve my Church first of all, and the whole world, that is, every person I find along my way. I serve and I will give of myself unto death so that there will be no distance between speaking and doing, so that the people will never again say, 'there is a chasm between us and the leaders' and word spread that the Church is far from her people. I know very well that our people are good and that they want from us today to go to them, to seek them out wherever they are, to search out the lost and return them joyfully to the fold. They hunger and thirst for the Word of God.”
“There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it.”

Source : Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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