"A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it."

-- Carlos Castaneda

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“Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.”
“Every day I turned a 'you can't' into a 'you can.'”
“How to live simply? It is a big question. Let the answer come into the empty space that one must create in oneself. Trying to live simply is not the way - we don't know how. Trying to fix it is filling the space with activity, when what is needed is to empty oneself and allow an answer to appear.”
“To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no one actually wants to suffer, to be sick, to be cold or hungry - but as long as we continue to indulge in wrong doing we will never put an end to suffering. Likewise, we will never achieve happiness, except through positive deeds, words, and thoughts. Positive action is something we have to cultivate ourselves; it can be neither bought nor stolen, and no one ever stumbles on it just by chance.”
“Don't come home a failure.”

Source : Ty Cobb, William R. Cobb, Paul Dickson (2009). “My Twenty Years in Baseball”, p.21, Courier Corporation
“Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.”

Source : Interview at Scientific American online, March 26, 2001.
“Mothers are the heart and soul of every life they touch. In them lies the beauty, depth and grandeur of life. Cherish the Children is an inspirational expression of the importance of a Mother's work.”
“And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.”

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