"It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us , but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.”

Source : "They Said It: Eric Cantona". www.fifa.com. August 27, 2010.
“There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out.”

Source : Song: My Way, 2007
“To deny one's self, to take up the cross, denotes something immeasurably grander than self-imposed penance or rigid conformity to a Divine statute. It is the surrender of self to an ennobling work, an absolute subordination of personal advantages and of personal pleasures for the sake of truth and the welfare of others, and a willing acceptance of every disability which their interests may entail.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 169), 1895.
“The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.”
“The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
“In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.”
“In the 18th century, people began to adopt the radical new idea that love should be the most fundamental reason for marriage and that young people should be free to choose their marriage partners independently.”
“A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow.”

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