"I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals."

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Source : “Larry Bird: What I've Learned” by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. January 6, 2009.

Larry Bird

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“Physics isn't a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.”
“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.”
“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”
“This is what Christianity is. We believe the Old Testament, but ours is more like Federal Express. You have to obey laws.”
“We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.”
“I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll.”
“The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life.”

Source : Thorstein Veblen (2016). “THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASS: An Economic Study of American Institutions and a Social Critique of Conspicuous Consumption: Development of Institutions That Shape Society and Influence the Livelihood of Citizens: Based on Sociological & Economical Theories of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Adam Smith and Herbert Spencer”, p.7, e-artnow
“The witness of the three states of consciousness [waking, dream and deep sleep] and of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss is the Self”

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