"There is no western, capitalistic country in which the conditions of the masses have not improved in an unprecedented way."

“If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.”

Source : James Burgh (1767). “The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, A Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for Attaining the True End of Our Existence. In Four Books ...”, p.38

“In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.”

“Really, UCLA's a great place as well, but they don't have the kind of environment they have here. The fans here have a passion.”

“It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.”

“All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.”

“The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.”

“A lot of white-collar work requires less of the routine, rule-based, what we might call algorithmic set of capabilities, and more of the harder-to-outsource, harder-to-automate, non-routine, creative, juristic - as the scholars call it - abilities.”

“Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com