"If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off."

-- Chuck Yeager

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“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heavenâ€™s mouth.”
“I know I probably never will win the league MVP or passing title. That is not why I play the game. I try to win football games and championships.”
“If brains were money, you'd need to take out a loan to buy a cup of coffee.”
“There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don't actually know what's going to happen.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right or wrong reason presupposes a divine, all-penetrating judgment able to distinguish historically obsolete forms of suffering from those in our time, instead of leaving this decision to the sufferers themselves.”

Source : Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press
“Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.”
“I personall do not believe in 'style'. Because of 'styles', people are separated. They are not united together because styles became law.”
“I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.”

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