"I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level."

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Source : Diana Nyad (1978). “Other shores”, Random House (NY)

Diana Nyad

#Pain Quotes #Mean Quotes #Long Quotes

“Working on television is therapeutic to me. When that camera comes on all negativity vanishes. I forget about the fight I had with my neighbor. I forget about the pain in my left foot. I forget about my dog dying. Performing, for me, is an emotional cure all.”
“Farewell is a beautiful and a soft word and yet it is a horrible and a heavy thing too!”
“The biggest weapon of mass destruction in history is the AK-47, not Iranian nuclear weapons.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.”

Source : "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.
“Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.”
“After 9/11, we had this "terrorist-Muslim-threat" in the US but at the same time, next to that, in Holland we had this growing awareness that the so-called integration of new Dutch people, a lot of those that had come to live and work in our country originated from countries such as Turkey and Morocco, and a lot of them are actually Muslim, wasn't quite the success the state always had thought it was. The "new" Dutch didn't feel totally accepted, treated as second-rate citizens, and parts of the "old" Dutch suddenly believed that the new ones were trying to destroy our society.”
“Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as being a racist.”
“Instability mostly comes from the interface between the fact that the banks (or shadow banks) can create credit, money, and purchasing power in infinite quantities if we don't constrain them, and the fact that credit is primarily created to fund the purchase of urban real estate and land, which is somewhat fixed in supply.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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