"The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject."

-- Jon Wynne-Tyson

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“I always stayed in tune with my own ambitions and attitudes and I'm still my intractable old self, for better or worse.”

Source : Leroy Neiman (2013). “All Told: My Art and Life Among Athletes, Playboys, Bunnies, and Provocateurs”, p.121, Rowman & Littlefield
“I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.”
“In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.”
“Football is a great love because I was born into a family of players and therefore born into football. I'm fortunate to have a style of play that a lot of people like. It's a privilege to be able to do what I like best and in my own way, but I'm fortunate that people like it, and that motivates me even more.”
“With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and we search among ghostly errors of measurement for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. Not until the empirical resources are exhausted, need we pass on to the dreamy realms of speculation.”

Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1936). “The Realm of the Nebulæ”
“I'm proud of my record of negotiating agreements, representing people and making sure that both employers and employees could get the best out of going to work every day.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
“I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.”
“Be happy and be satisfied. Find fulfillment in everything you do.”

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