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-- Dan Rather

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“The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.”
“If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.”
“Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.”
“Our days are so few, our existences so complicated. As long as we're breathing we shouldn't further complicate our lives.”

Source : Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March 2006.
“If you are you, 24 hours a day, then you do not have to remember who you are supposed to be in different situations - something that I imagine could be troublesome.”
“Kindness is the color in the cathedral window which woven into beautiful characters shuts out the hideous sights of a world which is all too practical.”
“(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”

Source : "Disgrace". Book by J. M. Coetzee, 2000.
“Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.”

Source : Anatoli Boukreev, G. Weston DeWalt (2015). “The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest”, p.301, St. Martin's Griffin

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