"This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon."

-- Wilson Greatbatch

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“A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.”

Source : Anthony Capella (2009). “The Wedding Officer”, p.305, Hachette UK
“I'm not really a conspiracy nut, but I think if I went down a slightly different route in my life instead of meeting and marrying the person I met, I may have gone down this other direction and got myself stuck in my head with my ideas and my thoughts and I'm into UFOs and paranormal subject matter.”
“I didn't even know what it was when I started. But I was lucky. I found it at 16. Most people don't discover decathlon until they're 21 or 22.”
“They weren't true stories; they were better than that.”
“Newcastle are absolutely besotted by injuries”

Source : "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.
“I have led her home, my love, my only friend. There is none like her, none, And never yet so warmly ran my blood, And sweetly, on and on Calming itself to the long-wished for end, Full to the banks, close on the prom- ised good.”
“In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.”
“What man needs is not just the persistent posing of ultimate questions, but the sense of what is feasible, what is possible, what is correct, here and now. The philosopher, of all people, must, I think, be aware of the tension between what he claims to achieve and the reality in which he finds himself.”

Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2013). “Truth and Method”, p.35, A&C Black

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