"No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him."

-- Charles Kendall Adams

“I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now â€” and we're going to try our hands at it.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (1924). “Main Street”, p.228, Lulu.com
“Justice waits upon the great, Interest holds the scale, and Riches turns the balance.”
“The visual possibility of seeing the historical person (as opposed to the eternal Qur'anic man) on screen is arguably the single most important event allowing Iranians access to modernity.”

Source : Hamid Dabashi (2001). “Close Up: Iranian Cinema, Past, Present, and Future”, p.15, Verso
“I want to wake up every day and feel that I'm training harder than my competitors, that I'm dieting harder, that I'm recovering better. That's what gives me confidence when I'm lining up on the blocks. I've never gone out to prove people wrong. I just want to be the best that I can possibly be.”
“Music is sound. It's a wave. It's going out and coming back, and it's bouncing off.”
“Take care of yourselves, and each other”

Source : "The lowest-rated Jerry Springer Show ever". www.theguardian.com. November 22, 1999.
“Never underestimate a child's ability to get into more trouble.”
“I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.”

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