"If the mind's not strong, the body acts weak, even if it's not. If the mind says it's too cold or too rainy or too windy to run, the body will be more than happy to agree. If the mind says it would be better to rest or recover or cut practice, the body will be glad to oblige."

-- Wendelin Van Draanen

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“The first duty of love is to listen.”
“Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.”
“When you buy a lottery ticket, you don't know how tickets have been sold. But sold they have been. And there is an underlying distribution for the game.”

Source : "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 3, Estimating Portfolio Risk and Expected Return with Ad Hoc Factor Models, p. 29, 1999.
“You have not learned to live until you have learned to give”
“Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.”

Source : Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”
“What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a school 'values' reading what it really means is that the school intensely focuses on raising state-mandated reading test scores- the kind of reading our students will rarely, if ever, do in adulthood.”
“Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.”
“There's almost always a point in a book where something happens that triggers the rest of the plot.”

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