"I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it."

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Source : "Leon Spinks is down, not out". Interview with Stan Grossfeld, www.sfgate.com. December 25, 2005.

Leon Spinks

“I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.937, Simon and Schuster
“Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, itâ€™s indispensable.”
“Love that cares, listens.”
“The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.”
“Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.”
“When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square ... I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.”
“When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.”

Source : "Nonviolence as Compliance" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.theatlantic.com. April 27, 2015.

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