"I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year."

-- Robert Reich

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“If you don't like don't do it. But don't forget that: NO PAIN NO GAIN.”
“I hate elevators. I'm claustrophobic so for me to be in an elevator or small spaces is probably the worst thing on earth.”

Source : ""Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo on their New Album, 'This Is... Icona Pop'". "Coup De Main" Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.
“I kept hearing I'd be traded to San Francisco. Man I would love that. I even went so far as to go into the locker room singing 'I left my heart in San Francisco'. Nobody laughed or said a word. I figured maybe I'd get my wish”

Source : Song: (I Left My Heart) In San Francisco, 1962
“Weakness is strength.”
“We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.”

Source : Irving Babbitt (1908). “Literature and the American college: essays in defense of the humanities”
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict seems to have been overshadowed by the upheavals in the region. Â I have followed events there for almost 40 years. I am convinced that what is needed for a solution is not only the willingness to negotiate in good faith but also to take into account the needs and sensibility of the negotiating partner. I, for one, just cannot believe that the value of settlements for Israel is bigger than the damage these settlements do as an obstacle to peace.”
“Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.”
“Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.60, Library of Alexandria

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