"I don't think our death ray is working. I'm standing right in it, and I'm not dead yet."

-- Jamie Hyneman

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“People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.”
“I am gonna go into my coaching badges after my England days are finished and I have the time on my international break.”
“You'll never forget October 9, 2005, ... Every time you see the National Mall, every time you see that [Capitol] building back there, every time you see the national monument, you'll say 'I met God on the National Mall.'”
“Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
“I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.”
“The Washington Post speaking out against state legislation that he believed would let businesses deny services to gay, lesbian and transgender people. [Tim] Cook himself came out as gay in the pages of Bloomberg Businessweek.”

Source : "How Tim Cook's Stand Over Digital Privacy Could Define Apple's Future". "All Things Considered" with Laura Sydell, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.
“Ancient boundaries are meaningless, except for political purposes; old divisions of clan and tribe are sentimental remnants of the pre-atomic age; neither creed nor color nor place of origin is relevant to the realities of modern power to utterly seek and destroy.”
“Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.”

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