"I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough."

-- Dick Butkus

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“Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death.”
“Cricket the world over, I don't think, will ever know how different things would be without Kerry Packer.”
“South Park started as a little video Christmas card.”
“We seem to be heading for a state of affairs in which the determination of whether or not Doomsday has arrived will be made either by an automatic device ... or by a pre-programmed president who, whether he knows it or not, will be carrying out orders written years before by some operations analyst.”
“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”
“I always thought it would be really cool to be playing the drums in the show and then have your astral body or whatever travel all through the audience and dig whatever it's like out there.”

Source : "Just a Guy Who Plays Drums: An Interview with Bill Kreutzmann". Interview with Sarah Bruner, www.jambands.com. March 15, 1999.
“We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.”
“Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks... Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.”

Source : Silvanus P. Thompson (1914). “Calculus Made Easy: Differential Calculus and the Integral Calculus”

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