"I beat Larry Holmes and George Foreman. I whupped Mike Tyson twice. I had my ear chewed off and spat on the ground in front of me. I've seen everything it is possible to see in boxing. I know this business better than anyone. So I live and die by my own decisions."

-- Evander Holyfield

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“It is what a woman, leaves off, not what she puts on that gives her cachet”
“A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.”
“Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.”
“Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple”
“Many people used to call me a child prodigy, but I never thought that. I knew that I had learned everything, that I had very good circumstances.”
“If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if a soldier is a wedge, a women is a needle; being, so to speak, all point, at least at the two extremities. Add to this the power of making herself practically invisible at will, and you will perceive that a female, in Flatland, is a creature by no means to be trifled with.”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2017). “Flatland”, p.17, BookRix
“My father's family were liquidated during the Cultural Revolution in China because they were landowners. He was the only one to escape. I was born and brought up in Taiwan. But you absorb the trauma. My parents had no sense of security.”
“A journalist finds out things by asking questions of people who know.”

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