"Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality."

-- Michael Phelps

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“Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.”
“Life should be lived on the edge of life.”
“Memory is the medium of the must-have-been.”
“When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.”
“At some point, I get a weird feeling, and that's when I know it's done. I probably ruin a lot of really perfectly fine things. So part of working on paper, and trying to work really fast, is to see if I can expand the area of not being driven by taste. Not saying, "This looks good, I'll stop."”
“Man doth not yield him to the angels, nor unto death utterly, save only through the weakness of his feeble will.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill, Anthony Horneck, Henry More (1966). “Saducismus Triumphatus: Or, Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions [!] (1689)”
“It is most heartening to learn that young men and women, in their late teens and twenties, are increasingly attracted to meditative prayer in the Presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. May all the faithful find in the Eucharist their source of strength and courage to imitate our Lady, totally open to his will in their daily lives. It is my hope that this devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist will spread to more and more parishes and dioceses across our nation.”
“I wanted you to watch, so I stomped around the room to wake you before I got in the shower. Didn't you wonder why the light was on? It wasn't for me, I can see in the dark. And then I kept the water cold so the glass wouldn't fog.”

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