"For all my friends in the media who like quotes, mark this quote down. From this day on I'd like to be known as 'The Big Aristotle' because Aristotle once said, 'Excellence is not a singular act; it's a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.'"

-- Shaquille O'Neal

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“It is very reasonable to worry about the harm done by organized religion, and to prefer looser and more private arrangements.”
“The truth is we all get tired, we all get weary. In fact, if you never feel like giving up, then your dreams are too small. If you never feel like quitting, then you need to set some larger goals. When that pressure comes to get discouraged and to think about how you canâ€™t take it anymore, that is completely normal. Every person feels that way at times.”
“If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too.”
“When you see someone as a human being, you begin to understand most people are doing what they believe is right. I ask myself, "What if you were wrong? How would you want someone to engage with you?"”
“Usually with things, you go where you can find the financing to do it.”
“If you don't pass your values on to your kids, someone else will.”
“Earth took her shining station as a star, In Heaven's dark hall, high up the crowd of worlds.”
“It is a mark of the depth of their wounding that they are pretending they suspected it all along. Everything that they have seen and been told about love so far has been an inside perspective, and they are not prepared for the crashing weight of this exclusion. It dawns on them now how much they never saw and how little they were wanted, and with this dawning comes a painful re-imagining of the self as peripheral, uninvited, and utterly minor.”

Source : Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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