"What odds does it make to the man who lives within Nature's bounds, whether he ploughs a hundred acres or a thousand?"

-- Horace

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“Smiling can be a deliberate, intentioned act. When it is that, it becomes an act of creation, and a powerful tool. Be quick to smile, and quick to share your smile with others. You will light up your heart and light up the room.”
“Change can only come from local citizens and politicians - it cannot be imposed by well-meaning foreigners - not least because a society like Afghanistan or Iraq is suspicious of outsiders and often resistant to change. I am not going to get drawn into the ethics of intervening in other countries. My concern is the practical question. Can you actually achieve change in this way? My guess is we can stop wars sometimes as in the Balkans and topple regimes - but that the other stuff - such as corruption is not within our power to effect and alter.”

Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com
“The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked puntâ€”and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.”
“In Fact, My Soul And Yours Are The Same, You Appear In Me, I In You.”
“I'm not unswayed by the opinions of others. I actually really value that, the idea that you can feel things the way somebody else might feel them is a really big part of doing music for me.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“I used to think that humor was the only way to appreciate how wonderful and terrible the world is, to celebrate how big life is. But now I think the opposite. Humor is a way of shrinking from that wonderful and terrible world.”
“If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.”
“I want to play interesting women.”

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