"I couldn't touch my toes with straight legs, but I could break 4 minutes for the mile."

-- Roger Bannister

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“Opportunity only gives you knockers once.”
“I've been doing the 'Sherman's Lagoon' strip for about 18 years, and I was a political cartoonist before that for my hometown paper in Alexandria, Va.”
“Well-referenced, with numerous quotations from renowned Egyptologists and classical scholars, Acharya's penetrating research clearly lays out the very ancient pre-Christian basis of modern Christianity. Those who espouse Christianity beware! After digesting the evidence, you will never again view your religion in the same light.”
“There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are momentsâ€”moments of sustained creationâ€”when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.”
“I trust in the Lord God Almighty ... that he will not take away from me the cup of his redemption, but firmly hope to drink from it today in his kingdom.”
“It's time for the truth: I want to be traded, I'm ready to be traded. First and foremost, this has nothing to do with the fans or the city, it's just time for me to look after me.”
“In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.”
“Every little thing wants to be loved.”

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