"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“In our world no one ever knows what to do, and everyone's just as clueless and full of crap as everyone else, and you have to figure it all out by yourself. And even after you've figured it out and done it, you'll never know whether you were right or wrong. You'll never know if you put the ring in the right volcano, or if things might have gone better if you hadn't.”
“Yesterday Michael Phelps set an all-time Olympic record for most medals. Phelps has so much gold on his chest he's been asked to join the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'”
“Education is worth little if it teaches only how to make a living rather than how to make a life.”
“It was very hard to get any records, so the only source for us to really hear what was happening was listening to the Voice of America. We would be taping all the broadcast and then sharing the tapes and talking about it.”
“Sequestration is leverage that should not be given up easily.”
“Even before 2007, this half of a small island was the richest football country on earth. In 2005-2006 the Premiership's total revenue was about Â£1.4bn, 40 per cent more than its nearest rival, Italy's Serie A. That was before take-off. Now foreign television channels are sending so much cash that the Premiership is expected to take in nearly Â£1.8bn this season. Even the team that finishes bottom of the table (Wigan might be a good bet) will get Â£26.8m from TV. That's more than all of Argentine or Belgian football put together.”
“Memory is, of course, a trickster.”
“Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.”

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