"Science is an investigation," Coach said, sanding his hands together. "Science requires us to transform into spies." Put that way, science almost sounded fun. But I'd been in Coach's class long enough not to get my hopes up."

-- Becca Fitzpatrick

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“As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.”
“As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.”
“When you sit down to play a game you should think only about the position, but not about the opponent. Whether chess is regarded as a science, or an art, or a sport, all the same psychology bears no relation to it and only stands in the way of real chess.”
“All I can say about the work I try to do, is that the aesthetic is in reality itself.”

Source : "Photography Speaks: 66 Photographers on Their Art". Book by Brooks Johnson, www.nytimes.com. 1989.
“Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.”

Source : Martin E.P. Seligman (2011). “Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life”, p.39, Vintage
“Most people get better when they face competition.”

Source : "Condoleezza Rice: Education Could Be 'Greatest National Security Challenge'". "PBS Newshour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. March 19, 2012.
“In the story of the good Samaritan, Jesus not only teaches us to help people in need; more deeply, he teaches us that we cannot identify who â€œhas itâ€, who is â€œinâ€ with God, who is â€œblessedâ€, by looking at exteriors of any sort. That is a matter of the heart. There alone the kingdom of the heavens and human kingdoms great and small are knit together. Draw any cultural or social line you wish, and God will find his way beyond it.”
“There's more B.S. in fly fishing than there is in a Kansas feedlot.”

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