"Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went."

-- Omar Khayyam

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“Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must.”
“Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.”
“I carry my roots with me all the time rolled up, I use them as my pillow.”

Source : Francisco X. Alarcón (1993). “No Golden Gate for Us”
“A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men”, p.72, Hachette UK
“Too much FANTASY loses REALITY, too much HOPE may seem somehow EMPTY.”
“Krakow is one of my favorite places on earth. It is a medieval city full of young people. A wonderful, striking combination.”
“If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans (and all other species in nature) are decisively not designed for, it is voluntary childlessness. All living organisms in nature, including humans, are evolutionarily designed to reproduce. Reproductive success is the ultimate end of all biological existence.”

Source : "The Intelligence Paradox". Book by Satoshi Kanazawa, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2012.
“How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?”

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