"It's been a wild ride. I hope people can appreciate how special it is to see the people that ran well today; how special and sometimes fleeting greatness can be even from yourself. I gave it everything I had and for a short period of time I did very very well and I'm very proud of that and I'm leaving it at that. I did the best I could."

-- Alan Webb

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“Art that has depth makes a strong impact on the spirit, emotion, mood and thoughts of a human being.”
“I didn't realise you could travel so far and still be in England.”
“One of the problems in Washington is there are far too many politicians who desperately just want to get re-elected.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The inward journey is about finding your own fullness, something that no one else can take away.”
“If cybernetics is the science of control, management is the profession of control”

Source : "Applied cybernetics: its relevance in operations research" by A. Ghosal, (p. 2), 1978.
“I've done so many movies with first-time directors, and honestly I just go with gut instinct. People that usually can tell me a good story, and talk to me about why the movie is the movie they want to make. I just go with my gut.”
“Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.”

Source : Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”
“I want to be magic. I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. I want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. Or under a hill. I want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. I don't want to pretend at magic anymore. I want to be magic.”

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