"Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet."

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Source : George Leonard (2001). “The Ultimate Athlete”, p.254, North Atlantic Books

George Leonard

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“Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his board (revealing, as he did so, the fact that beneath his baggy swim trunksâ€”so weighted down with water that they had sunk somewhat dangerously low on his hipsâ€”lurked what appeared to be an exceptionally well-formed gluteus maximus)”
“Iâ€™m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyanceâ€¦ Iâ€™ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.”
“We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq.”
“In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.”

Source : "Spectres of Sarajevo" by Janine di Giovanni, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
“Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.”
“The paradox of Reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”

Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
“To indulge it is to breed it. To punish it is to feed it. Madness knows no bridle but the knife.”

Source : R. Scott Bakker (2008). “The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)”, p.96, The Overlook Press
“Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.”

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