"I took that smile and I put it right where the hole in my chest was. It was better than coffee, or chocolate, or a perfect pirouette. I clutched it and held it tight."

-- Cecil Castellucci

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“I started young but at every turn, listening provided a foundation for my leadership. I can say categorically that all the really excellent leaders I have known were, in my view, excellent listeners.”
“I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.”
“I used to think success would be sustainability. Not being behind the eight ball.”

Source : "Ted Leo and Ben Arthur Discuss Carly Simon, Joyce Carl Oates, and the Touring Grind". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. June 26, 2016.
“Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in some lodges the accepted or gentleman masons had gained the ascendancy: those lodges became, in turn speculative lodges, whilst others continued their purely operative nature. The speculative lodges eventually combined to form the Grand Lodge of Scotland in 1736.”

Source : John Hamill (1986). “The Craft: A History of English Freemasonry”, HarperCollins
“Well I'd really love to work with Robert De Niro, because he's still the most talented actor out there.”
“Two World Wars are sufficient and we are the ones who supported this notion of a united Europe, so there would never be another set of civil wars in Europe again, ever. That was a fabulous success. It was so fabulous that people now take it for granted.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.”
“It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.”

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