"Needing and getting donâ€™t seem likely to match up any time soon... What needs doing is mine to do."

-- Charles Frazier

“Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.”
“The developed world should neither shelter nor militarily destabilize authoritarian regimes unless those regimes represent an imminent threat to the national security of other states. Developed states should instead work to create the conditions most favorable for a closed regime's safe passage through the least stable segment of the J curve however and whenever the slide toward instability comes. And developed states should minimize the risk these states pose the rest of the world as their transition toward modernity begins.”

Source : "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall". Book by Ian Bremmer, 2006.
“We are born into a world in which sexual possibilities are narrowly circumscribed. . . . We are programmed by the culture as surely as rats are programmed to make the arduous way through the scientist's maze, and that programming operates on every level of choice and action.”
“When I Tell You I Need To Be Alone, What I Mean Is I Don't Want You To See Me Changing The Batteries On My Confidence.”
“A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make.”

Source : "A Lifelong Love: How to Have Lasting Intimacy, Friendship, and Purpose in Your Marriage". Book by Gary L. Thomas, 2014.
“Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm. A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood tipped up at me and my body spiraled away. Then I was on the ceiling looking down, waiting to see what would happen next. What happened next was thet a perfect, straight line of blood bloomed from under the blade.The line grow into a long, Fat bubbel, A lush crimson bubbel that got bigger and bigger. I watch from above, waiting to see how big it would get before it burst. when it did, I felt awesome. Satisfied, finally. Then exhausted.”
“If you play with fire, you're gonna get burned.”
“You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.”

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