"I worry when athletes are simply used by their universities to produce revenue, to make money for them, nothing to show at the back end. I grew up with a lot of players who had very, very tough lives after the ball started bouncing for them. And that's why I'm going to continue to fight."

-- Arne Duncan

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“The Saint whose water can light lamps, the clairvoyant whose lapse in recall is the breath of God, the true paranoid for whom all is organized in spheres joyful or threatening about the central pulse of himself, the dreamer whose puns probe ancient fetid shafts and tunnels of truth all act in the same special relevance to the word, or whatever it is the word is there, buffering, to protect us from. The act of metaphor than was a thrust at truth and a lie, depending where you were: inside, safe or outside, lost.”
“You can complete a project by dropping it.”
“There is no "ruler" in our country. Poland is a democracy. Our Prime Minister leads the government; the President is fulfilling his tasks. But there is a little bit left for the party leader.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thatâ€™s the lot. Thereâ€™s no mercy in things. Thereâ€™s not even a Great Beyond. Thereâ€™s nothing.”
“True abundance has nothing to do with what I am having, but everything to do with what I am being.”
“If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.”
“But every person has to learn to accept what has happened in the past. Without bitterness. Or there is no point in continuing with life.”

Source : Rebecca Stead (2008). “First Light”, p.216, Yearling
“That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies.”

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