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“The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.”
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“Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.”
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“Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.”
Source : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.182, University of Chicago Press
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“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”
Source : Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan
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“When I was a kid I didn't feel like I fit in because - this is really silly and I probably shouldn't say it, but, I didn't think anything was funny. So I used to go home and literally cry to my mom and my step-dad at the time and I didn't think anything was funny. I couldn't laugh.”
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“Whitesnake more than most rock bands would get a very significant percentage of women in the audience and those were the ones I'd hear the voices because from where I am on stage is a pretty good spot.”
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“Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.”
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“As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 
