"And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss the soccer idol is born. He is born in a straw crib in a tin-roofed shack and he enters the world clinging to a ball."

-- Eduardo Galeano

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“The beachcomber goes looking for trouble, everything he finds is a sign of trouble. The writer is the same; without trouble he has nothing to work with, so he picks over the tide line, over the bits and pieces of people's lives with grim fascination.”

Source : Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.66, Penguin UK
“I've never tried to be controversial. The truth is controversial enough.”
“It is understandable that people cannot be knowledgeable about all the different mediums. Sometimes it is funny.”
“Nothing is surer than that the people will be weak.”
“Strength is the matter of the made up mind.”
“I don't have much of a problem with interruptions. I keep a detailed record of paint and materials as a work on each painting. I can restart exactly where I left off.”
“When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority.”

Source : "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 121, 1974.
“I shop all the time, basically every day, whether it's online or in every city we go to.”

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