"I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand"

-- Greg Louganis

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“Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.”
“The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.”
“The statement that although the past can be recorded, the future cannot, is translatable into the statistical statement: Isolated states of order are always postinteraction states, never preinteraction states.”

Source : Hans Reichenbach, Maria Reichenbach (1991). “The Direction of Time”, p.155, Univ of California Press
“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.”
“'T is said that absence conquers love; But oh believe it not! I've tried, alas! its power to prove, But thou art not forgot.”

Source : Frederick William Thomas (1847). “Clinton Bradshaw: Or, The Adventures of a Lawyer. Two Volumes in One”, p.117
“I really don't map out my life. There's no big plan.”
“In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.”
“According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.”

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