"Why do our dreams become so much smaller when they finally come true?"

-- George R. R. Martin

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”
“it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people”
“On the whole, life is unfair in the way it works out. It is a game played without an umpire!”
“Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.”

Source : Song: Against The Wind, Album: Against the Wind, 1980
“No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such”
“Nothing is far from God.”
“The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.”
“How hard you work matters more than how much you make.”

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