"I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page."

-- Carmelo Anthony

#Disappointment Quotes #Selfish Quotes #Reading Quotes

“The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world...”
“It becomes necessary to realize that the body is not conscious, but we are conscious of the body, also that the mind is not conscious but we are conscious of the mind.”
“I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.”
“I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft - a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less.”

Source : "Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson". Computer 32 (5), (pp. 58-64), May 1999.
“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books
“The possibility of endangering Nevadans will never happen under my watch. I will do everything I can to protect the safety and welfare of our citizens.”
“The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country.”
“Time is the Mercy of Eternity”

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