"Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American... and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year-1956...But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game."

-- John Eliot

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“The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.”
“It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.”
“It's pretty cool that people will pay for something even though they don't have to. It's totally different now to back in the day. Now you're paying for a record because you believe in the band. In the future that will be the only time people will pay for albums, because there's some kind of connection.”
“The entire country may disagree with me, but I don't understand the necessity for patriotism. Why do you have to be a patriot? About what? This land is our land? Why? You can like where you live and like your life, but as for loving the whole country? I don't see why people care about patriotism.”
“There is an infinity of political errors which, being once adopted, become principles.”
“Your best success comes after your greatest disapponitment”
“Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal Liberty!”

Source : Tobias Smollett, John Moore (1872). “The Works of Tobias Smollett, M. D. With Memoirs of His Life: to which is Prefixed A View of the Commencement and Progress of Romance”, p.334
“If you want an active schedule, you have to husband your time so you can act on the things that are important.”

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