"If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" Iâ€¦don't know. Whatâ€¦could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug."

-- Ayn Rand

#Running Quotes #Blood Quotes #Effort Quotes

“The Thought Police: To censor and protect.”
“Everyone wants dignity. And today the mission of HOPE is ‘silver rights,’or making the free enterprise system work for the least of these God’s children, and why we believe that the new definition of freedom today is self-determination.”

Source : "Defining Financial Literacy in a New Economic Age" by John Hope Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2013.
“A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.15
“The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize.”

Source : Evgeny Morozov (2014). “To Save Everything, Click Here: The Folly of Technological Solutionism”, p.346, PublicAffairs
“Roger [Federer], he brought tennis... one level higher. Normally he toys with everybody. With all respect to other players, he does whatever he wants on the court against them. It's incredible what kind of game he can play.”
“Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam, and pandemonium. What a tragic lack of political imagination to think that leaders and centralized structures are the only way to organize effective political projects!”
“My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.”
“Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.”

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