"Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence."

-- Matthew Hayden

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“It is cynicism, and not idealism, that is generally the mark of youthful immaturity, or rather it is the cynic who is generally the most foolish romantic.”

Source : Andrew Sarris (1996). “The American cinema: directors and directions, 1929-1968”, Da Capo Pr
“Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.Don't put limitations on yourself.Others will do that for you.”
“If we became students of Malcolm X, we would not have young black men out there killing each other like they're killing each other now. Young black men would not be impregnating young black women at the rate going on now. We'd not have the drugs we have now, or the alcoholism.”
“I didn’t want to hear that people lived happily ever after. I wanted to know that other people suffered, too.”

Source : Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.29, Penguin
“I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.”
“There is no question that Francis was in advance of his age, as he anticipated all that is liberal and sympathetic in modern times: the love of nature, the love of animals, the sense of social compassion, the sense of the spiritual dangers of affluence.”

Source : Henryk Skolimowski (1993). “A Sacred Place to Dwell: Living With Reverence Upon the Earth”, HarperElement
“However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.”
“Tom [Cargil]s suggestion with a further idea: Propsers of new [C++] features should be required to donate a kidney. That would - Jim [Waldo] pointed out - make people think hard before proposing, and even people without any sense would propose at most two extensions.”

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