"I swear, every person I know gets far more satisfaction from doing good deeds than receiving them. Maybe thatâ€™s the whole point in the end, all of us putting up with good deeds, tolerating them as best we can, counting the minutes until we have the opportunity to reciprocate."

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Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Front and Center”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

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“I came out of an electronic music scene that based all its music on software. It was a real boys thing, a real testosterone thing - software and the relationship between music and the software - to the point where it was like a closely guarded secret.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.
“I don't know where my medals are.”
“The more I study the things of the mind the more mathematical I find them. In them as in mathematics it is a question of quantities; they must be treated with precision. I have never had more satisfaction than in proving this in the realms of art, politics and history.”

Source : Hippolyte Taine (1908). “Life and Letters of H. Taine: 1870-1892”
“We are His children in Very deed, having been born of Him in the spirit, and we have inherited the very attributes which he possesses. They are in us, and they make us God's embryo, We believe that as we are now God once was, and by the practice of virtue and righteousness, by obedience unto law and authority, He has become what He is, and as He is, man may become, on the same principle.”
“An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation.”

Source : "Apolo Anton Ohno closes door on 2014 comeback". Interview with Kelly Whiteside, www.usatoday.com. April 24, 2013.
“Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.”
“I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.”
“Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.”

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