"Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it."

-- Ben Hogan

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“We all spend so much time worrying about the future that the present moment slips right out of our hands. And so all we have left is retrospection and anticipation, retrospection and anticipation. In which case what's left to recall but past anticipation? What's left to anticipate but future retrospection?”

Source : David Leavitt (2013). “The Two Hotel Francforts”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included.”
“Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.”
“I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.”
“[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics.”
“Im winning races, Im still challenging for the world championships, the team is fantastic and I have a great relationship with everybody here - so why would I want to even consider changing?”

Source : "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.
“You cannot be a fully functioning 21st-century citizen in America unless you have access to high-speed broadband. It's as simple as that.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.”

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