"In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine."

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Aimee Mullins

#Sports Quotes #Stories Quotes #Interviews Quotes

“There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.”

Source : Tom Turner (2005). “Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC--2000 AD”, p.437, Taylor & Francis
“Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.”

Source : "Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" by Duncan Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.
“For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus.”

Source : W. W. Rouse Ball (2012). “A Short Account of the History of Mathematics”, p.352, Courier Corporation
“Do what is right... do it with honesty and vigor. Be creative - thats important. Dont follow what other people are doing.”
“All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.”
“Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.”

Source : John Wyndham (1957). “The Midwich Cuckoos”, Lightyear Press
“Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.”
“I cannot persuade myself that without love to others, and without, as far as rests with me, peaceableness toward all, I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.”

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