"The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for the world was naught by a school of calamity and an endless burning furnace of tribulation. But those who survived the world shaped it--even as the world, simultaneously, shaped them."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

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“More often you see Argentine fighters doing big things on a major stage. To be associated with those guys is really an honor and it's great to see so many people from my culture do big things in the sport.”
“Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.”
“Tea! thou soft, sober, sage and venerable liquid;- thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1777). “The Dramatic Works of Colley Cibber ...: In Five Volumes : Volume the Second”, p.211
“Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.”
“I see myself as a very eclectic person and artist. I use all kinds of sources for the work as maybe some large pieces. Ideas come from all kinds of areas; literature, popular culture, dreams, you name it.”
“I am suggesting that the radical of poetry lies not in the resolution of doubts but in their proliferation”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.28, Copper Canyon Press
“You learn how to do good work by being honest with yourself.”
“An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy”

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