"Rat race is the perfect name for it,' she said. 'We're always going and going and going, and never asking where. Did you ever hear of having more than you wanted? So that you couldn't want anything else and then started looking for something else to want? It seems like we're always searching for something to satisfy is, and never finding it. Maybe if we could lose our cool we would."

-- S. E. Hinton

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“You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.”
“In Paris ... I achieved a freer attitude towards anti-Semitism, which I now began to understand historically and to pardon. Above all I recognise the emptiness and futility of trying to 'combat' anti-Semitism.”
“People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.”

Source : record it. 1956 Lady Sings the Blues, with William Duffy.
“Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.”

Source : "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.
“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.”
“Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts”
“What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world?”

Source : "Remembering the Brockton Blockbuster" by Thomas Hauser, www.nysun.com. September 14, 2005.
“We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.”

Source : General Holland M. Smith (2014). “Coral And Brass”, p.39, Pickle Partners Publishing

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