"I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery."

-- Erro

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“The religious habits of the Americans form not only the basis of their private and public morals, but have become so thoroughly interwoven with their whole course of legislation that it would be impossible to change them without affecting the very essence of their government.”

Source : Francis Grund (2007). “Americans”, p.292, Applewood Books
“A positive engagement to marry a certain person at a certain time, at all haps and hazards, I have always considered the most ridiculous thing on earth.”

Source : Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.41, Cambridge University Press
“Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.”
“We can rarely see things from the point of view of another person because we look at the facts through the screen of an impression or an interest which distorts our view; and then there are accusations, quarrels and misunderstandin g.”
“When youâ€™re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that canâ€™t make up their minds. Perhaps itâ€™s a way of admitting that things canâ€™t ever bear the same certainty again.”
“Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.”

Source : "Ex-Texas coach Royal dies at age 88", www.sfgate.com. November 7, 2012.
“The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.”
“I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.”

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