"You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers."

-- Clive Anderson

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“We women have lived too much with closure: "If he notices me, if I marry him, if I get into college, if I get this work accepted, if I get this job" -- there always seems to loom the possibility of something being over, settled, sweeping clear the way for contentment. This is the delusion of a passive life. When the hope for closure is abandoned, when there is an end to fantasy, adventure for women will begin.”
“Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.”

Source : Geoff Thompson (2007). “The Elephant And The Twig: The Art of Positive Thinking”, p.99, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW
“I follow Coach Spurrier because he seems to have an entertaining way of communicating.”
“It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.”
“I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.”
“I am still determined to be cheerful and to be happy in whatever situation I may be, for I have also learnt from experianence that the greater part of our happiness or misary depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances; we carry the seeds of the one, or the other about with us, in our minds, wherever we go.”
“Perhaps some day in the dim future it will be possible to advance the computations faster than the weather advances and at a cost less than the saving to mankind due to the information gained. But that is a dream.”
“I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.”

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