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“Technology was once a substitute for dealing with people, but today it is at the heart of sociability.”
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“People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me.”
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“It's a game of failure [softball]. Everybody would play, that was easy and everyone's not playing because it is so tough. But it's a matter of keep plugging away, keep working hard, believing in yourself and it is a team sport and there is nothing better than being out there, having a ball in your hand, playing the game that you love and ultimately that's what it comes down is having fun and enjoying it.”
Source : "Jennie Finch Interviewed by Gary Leland". fastpitch.tv. March 13, 2014.
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“Sometimes a shock to the system is a good thing, you know? Like a reminder that you're alive.”
Source : Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.107, Simon and Schuster
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“Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.”
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“Iraq's always been very secular.”
Source : "Christofer Cerf and Victor Navasky on Iraq". "Bill Moyers Journal", billmoyers.com. May 2, 2008.
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“All great humorists are sad.... I cannot help seeing beyond the tinsel of humour, and recognising the pitiful basis of jest--the world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
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“The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.”
Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.69, Vintage