"The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly."

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Louis Zamperini

#New York Quotes #Race Quotes #Names Quotes

“When a population feels alienated from the legal system under which it lives, because that system fails to protect it from real dangers while lending succor and encouragement to every possible kind of wrongdoing, the population may well lose faith in the very idea of law. That is how civilization unravels.”
“The books are the books, and a lot of the stuff is some version of your id or your ego.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.”

Source : Jacques Hadamard (1954). “An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field”, p.124, Courier Corporation
“Fiber has a beneficial effect in preventing colon cancer.”
“I wanted to be an artist after all, and my teachers told me these were the best authors the 20th century had to offer. But these books sucked. They were so boring and sloppy and plotless. And Bob Dylan's lyrics seemed nonsensical to me - almost like he had just gotten high and written down whatever random thoughts occurred to him.”
“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”
“Again Creb grunted. It was the usual noncommittal comment used by men when responding to a woman. It carried only enough meaning to indicate the woman had been understood, without acknowledging too much significance in what she said.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Clan of the Cave Bear (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book One”, p.62, Bantam
“It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first human being'. We are so self-obsessed with our own history. There is so much more out there than what connects to us.”

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