"I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that."

-- Laura Wilkinson

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“I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.”
“Myth, legend, and ritual ... function to maintain a status quo. That makes them singularly bad in coping with change, indeed counterproductive, for change is the enemy of myth.”

Source : Elizabeth Janeway (1981). “Powers of the weak”, William Morrow & Co
“I believe a solid, really strong middle-class is the key to making the country in the best way.”
“Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.”

Source : Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co
“I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.”
“The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.”
“Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.”
“Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype is its apotheosis. A ritualized gathering of connoiseurs and the spoilt at a spotlit parade of snazzy pulchritude, it is an industrialized version of the pagan festivals of renewal. At the end of each seasonal display, a priesthood is enjoined to carry news of the omens to the masses.”

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