"And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow."

-- Matthew Arnold

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“And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.”
“I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things.”
“Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking.”
“You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.”
“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.”

Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1954). “The Alchemy of Books: And Other Essays and Addresses on Books & Writers”
“Hockey was such a part of my life, as well as my familyâ€™s, that I knew we were all going to miss it.Â For the first few weeks my son was in tears sobbing, â€˜I miss you being a Red Wing daddy.â€™Â I didnâ€™t know what to say so we just cried together.Â Nobody prepares you for that kind of stuff.”
“People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort with happiness. Dostoyevsky had it right: 'Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.' Never are my senses more engaged than when the pain sets in. There is a magic in misery. Just ask any runner.”

Source : "Ultramarathon Man". Book by Dean Karnazes, March 17, 2005.
“Our health care system is the finest in the world, but we still have too many uninsured Americans, too high prices for prescription drugs, and too many frivolous lawsuits driving our physicians out of state or out of business.”

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