"I love to race the best people in the world and the fastest people in the world."

-- Michael Phelps

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“Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?”
“After she was gone there would be no one who knew the whole of her life. She did not even know the whole of it! Perhaps she should have written some of it down...but really what would have been the point in that? Everything passed, she would too. This perspective offered her an unexpected clarity she nearly enjoyed, but even with this new clarity the world offered no more explanation for itself than it ever had.”

Source : Susan Minot (2010). “Evening”, p.17, Vintage
“We have proven a new pattern of abundance. We pray that we may also help to make a pattern for peace.”
“My relationship with my father had been on the proverbial fritz since the time I was fifteen and called the police to report him for child molesting. He had never molested me, but I wanted to have a party that weekend and needed him out of the house.”
“People don't love each other at our age, Martheâ€”they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is.”
“When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.”
“I rarely get mentioned in the same category as these other guys who have come out after me...[b]ut maybe I'm not that, maybe I'm not an Internet rapper.”
“The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.”

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