"I have a strong constitution which has served me quite well, though if I hadn't had such a strong one I might have led a more healthy life perhaps."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Strong Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Might Quotes

“Every collaboration helps you grow.”
“Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.”
“Jazz is an idea that is more powerful than the details of its history.”
“In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.”
“The elimination of ignorance, of illiteracy... and of needless inequalities in opportunities (is) to be seen as objectives that are valued for their own sake. They expand our freedom to lead the lives we have reason to value, and these elementary capabilities are of importance on their own”
“I refuse to go back to not liking who I was.”
“I know a lot of famous people didn't do well at school, like James Brown; he dropped out in fifth grade to be an entertainer, I respect that... but that's not going to be me. I'm not going to be able to do anything but work as hard as possible all the time and compete with everyone I know all the time to make it.”
“I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.”

Source : Galway Kinnell (2016). “Three Books”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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