"Physicists dream of Nobel prizes, engineers dream of mishaps."

-- Hendrik Tennekes

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“In training, don't be afraid to be an oddball, eccentric, or extremist. Only by daring to go against tradition can new ways of training be learned. The trick is recognizing quickly when a new approach is counterproductive.”
“At the moment we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. However you dress it up, it's pretty obvious who is being affected by the government's cuts.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I still have the desire to succeed, and I've always felt success is measured by what you've done in the win column, not top 10s.”

Source : "Hale Irwin, 66, has 45 years of S.F. history". Interview with Ron Kroichick, www.sfgate.com. October 26, 2011.
“There is no reason for believing that any sort of gods exist, and quite good reasons for believing that they do not exist and never have. It has all been a gigantic waste of time and a waste of life. It would be a joke of cosmic proportions if it weren't so tragic.”
“WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked features of his character.”
“I remember three- and four-week-long snow days, and drifts so deep a small child, namely me, could get lost in them. No such winter exists in the record, but that's how Ohio winters seemed to me when I was little - silent, silver, endless, and dreamy.”
“If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?”

Source : "Fictional character: Karen Blixen". "Out of Africa", www.imdb.com. 1985.
“Because life is short but sweet for certain”

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