"Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it"

-- Gary Paulsen

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“I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.”
“It's fear. Fear is like a giant fog. It sits on your brain and blocks everything. Real feeling, true happiness, real joy, they can't get through that fog. But you lift it and buddy you're in for the ride of your life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Bob Diamond". "Defending Your Life", www.imdb.com. March 22, 1991.
“Crime is a human behavior problem, not a mechanical problem. Furthermore, if firearms were not very useful for self-defense, then police wouldn't carry them. In a free country, if the government can go armed, so should the citizens, if they so choose.”
“I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
“Most of the services staff is for the larger corporations, not so much for small and medium businesses because they cannot afford an extensive services army.”
“Things just happen, it will pass, it's your learning process.”
“Wisdom canâ€™t prevent the storm.”
“The point here is what makes human beings different from other creatures is our ability to use language. We can use words to express ourselves in very eloquent and complex ways. We grow up telling and listening to stories. That's what turns us into the people we are.”

Source : Source: theundercurrent.org

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