"I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor."

-- Carol Bartz

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“Martin O'Neill rules with a rod of fear.”
“The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.”
“I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.”
“I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.”

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“I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.292
“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.”
“Never, never do I set to work on a canvas in the state it comes in from the shop. I provoke accidents - a form, a splotch of color. Any accident is good enough. I let the matiere decide. Then I prepare a ground by, for example, wiping my brushes on the canvas. Letting fall some drops of turpentine on it would do just as well. If I want to make a drawing I crumple the sheet of paper or I wet it; the flowing water traces a line and this line may suggest what is to come next.”
“Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can, when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the color and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favor of dirt.”

Source : "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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