"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man, except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

-- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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“I try to update my arsenal constantly. Learning different martial arts since childhood. To understand what's out there. To really be in tune.”
“Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.”
“My business is can I create a world that's possible and could happen? I think that's the only thing that I have to do, and I think that I have done that each time.”
“This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”
“The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly as the idea that they can communicate by a spoken language without commonly accepted semantic and grammatical rules.”
“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

Source : "Pathway to Purpose: Women Answer God's Call to Leadership: A Workbook". Book by Kathrine Giske, 1999.
“I guided my heap into the heart of Capitol Hill wondering for the first time in fourteen years what I could do to get money besides drive cabs or rob banks. Both occupations had their pros and cons. For instance, bank robbery isn't quite as dangerous as cab driving, but it pays better.”
“You should have seen Willie Wells play shortstop: as good as Ozzie Smith and a better hitter. How I wish people could have seen Ray Dandridge play third base, as good as Brooks Robinson and Craig Nettles and all of those. He was bowlegged; a train might go through there, but not a baseball.”

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