"The living will envy the dead."

-- Nikita Khrushchev

“A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.”

Source : Ana Castillo (2000). “Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel”, Anchor
“I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches you how to cope with defeat, and with complications of all sort. I think I'm a well-coordinated person, more than average, and I think that came through my interest in sports, and athletics. ... Playing basketball You have to make decisions promptly, and that's true in the operating room as well.”

Source : "Presidential Medal of Freedom". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. April 11, 1991.
“Trying to be really dark and alienating just felt exhausting to me, so I started going back to the music that I grew up with, whether it was African music or pop music. It took me away from being overly self-conscious about what I was doing.”
“Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.”
“If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

Source : George Bancroft (1855). “Literary and historical miscellanies”, p.64
“I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.”
“You look wonderful", Jason said. "No compliments, Jason. I'm uncomfortable enough in the lingerie." "Then by all means take it off.”
“For hundreds of millions of years, Sex was the most efficient method for propagating information of dubious provenance: the origins of all those snippets of junk DNA are lost in the sands of reproductive history. Move aside, Sex: the world-wide Web has usurped your role.”

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