"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope."

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Edith Wharton

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“When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.”
“I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.”

Source : "King of Cyber-Commerce". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 4, 2001.
“Now everybody is mafia. You got the Russian mafia, the Mexican mafia. Everybody is mafia these days.”
“Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'”

Source : Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
“I felt my father's presence with me, helping me to commit to paper the feelings I had. I really heard my father speaking to me from the other dimension”
“Inspiration does not come like a blot, nor is it kinetic energy striving, but it comes to us slowly and quietly all the time.”
“I know that I need honesty from the people I interview. I also know that the truth is more interesting than made up stuff, and also, people don't connect with you if you're not honest.”
“Music is life, and life is not a business.”

Source : "Iggy Pop celebrates Hall of Fame induction in typical fashion... by baring his chest". www.dailymail.co.uk. March 16, 2010.

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