"Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better."

-- Pat Riley

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“All great spirituality teaches about letting go of what you donâ€™t need and who you are not. Then, when you can get little enough and naked enough and poor enough, youâ€™ll find that the little place where you really are is ironically more than enough and is all that you need. At that place, you will have nothing to prove to anybody and nothing to protect. That place is called freedom. Itâ€™s the freedom of the children of God. Such people can connect with everybody. They donâ€™t feel the need to eliminate anybody . . .”
“Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'”

Source : "Chris O'Dowd: from The IT Crowd to Hollywood". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.
“"Half genius and half buffoon," Freeman Dyson ... wrote. ... [Richard] Feynman struck him as uproariously American-unbuttoned and burning with physical energy. It took him a while to realize how obsessively his new friend was tunneling into the very bedrock of modern science.”
“In America, law substitutes for custom.”
“You had me at fruit pies”
“The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.”

Source : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.37, Princeton University Press
“The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.”
“I donâ€™t want to make the same mistakes Iâ€™ve made before. I want to be free. I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you.”

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