"I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches"

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Muhammad Ali

“There is such an equality among them that the officers have no authority. The privates are all generals, but not soldiers.”
“There are guys who want to look good, and there are guys who want to perform at their best. Being fit is about being able to perform at your best, not necessarily just looking your best.”
“I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.”
“We godless lack that certainty, and we know the world is a complex place that requires compromise and is not ruled by a moral force - virtue is subject to negotiation, and is found in working together with others to find mutually satisfactory solutions. Good is not absolute, it is an emergent property that arises from successful networks of individuals. It is also something that is measured by evidence: we look at the good that people do, not the promises that they make and never keep, or the lies that dovetail nicely into dogma. Competence is a virtue. Intent is meaningless without action.”
“I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.”
“One of the key pleasures of receiving a letter is the act of holding and entering the envelope - a sort of cross between Christmas and sex.”

Source : Nick Bantock (2000). “The artful dodger: images & reflections”, Chronicle Books Llc
“It is possible in theory and I think true in practice that centralization could have been the optimal solution at the beginning of the computer era and now, but not in between. And it may change back again with some other technological development. Some things move in a straight line. Others move like a pendulum.”
“Why could we say more to each other when it counted less?”

Source : Laura Dave (2007). “London Is the Best City in America”, p.162, Penguin

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