"The wise man is astonished by anything."

-- Andre Gide

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“My first banjo? My mother's sister, my aunt, lived about a mile from where we did, and she raised some hogs. And she had - her - the hog - the mother - they called the mother a sow - of a hog. And she had some pigs. Well, the pigs were real pretty, and I was going to high school and I was taking agriculture in school. And I sort of got a notion that I'd like to do that, raise some hogs. And so my aunt had this old banjo, and my mother told me, said, which do you want, the pig or a banjo? And each one of them's $5 each. I said, I'll just take the banjo.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I can't say whether or not I'll ever get married again, but I'm open to the possibility.”
“We are not here just to survive and live long .... We are here to live and know life in it's multi-dimensions, to know life in its richness, in all it's variety. And when a man lives multi-dimensionally, explores all possibilities available, never shrinks back from a challenge, goes, rushes to it, welcomes it, rises to the occasion then life becomes a flame, life blooms.”
“Computers don't lie, but liars can compute.”

Source : Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.255, Simon and Schuster
“Nobody ever tells me to give them a pass or anything. My job is to score goals, and if I don't shoot the puck, I can't score goals.”

Source : "Ovie speaks out on Crosby, Caps' Cup hopes and that $124M deal". Interview with David Amber, sports.espn.go.com. February 7, 2008.
“The [EU] Council of Ministers will have far more power over the budgets of member states than the federal government in the United States has over the budget of Texas.”
“Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.”
“To see Earth fully we already need to love it”

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