"Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at."

-- Dan O'Brien

“Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.”
“Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.”
“The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.”
“Almost all fear is fear of the unknown. Therefore, what's the remedy? To become acquainted with the things you fear.”
“Men love women but, even more than that, men love cars.”

Source : "Rush - review" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2013.
“We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.”

Source : Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”
“In a very real sense, we are shipwrecked passengers on a doomed planet. Yet, even in a shipwreck, human decencies and human values do not necessarily vanish, and we must make the most of them. We shall go down, but let it be in a manner to which we may look forward as worthy of our dignity.”

Source : Norbert Wiener (1988). “The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society”, p.40, Da Capo Press
“If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?”

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