"Since a good part of my life has been wasted dealing with fools just like them, it's not worry I feel but weariness as I watch the approach of one more episode in the old, tired story of men who try to beat life, the smart ones who think they know it all and die with a look of surprise on their faces: at the final moment they always see the truth - they never really understood anything, never held anything in their hands. An old story, old and boring."

-- Ãlvaro Mutis

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“In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.”

Source : "Pat Summerall: Gridiron, God, and Graham". Interview With Andrew Knox, www.cbn.com.
“There's tons of stuff where you're like, "God, I wish I could take that back."”
“One should believe only what can be chosen to be true or just. Irrational (or unjustified) beliefs should be avoided because they can have disastrous practical consequences.”

Source : Source: deutsche-denker.de
“Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.”
“When a nominee for the Supreme Court, one of only nine lifetime appointments, makes an overtly brazen racist comment about tens of millions of American citizens, we don't need lectures. What we need to do is to confront her with what she said and what it says about her.”
“Given lesser opportunities, Kissinger would have done very well as a talk show host. Fortunately for him, although not so fortunately for the United States, he found his patron in Nelson Rockefeller instead of William Paley.”
“Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.”

Source : 'The Compleat Angler' (1653) 'Epistle to the Reader'
“Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.”

Source : "David Bailey: What I've Learned" by Johnny Davis, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2014.

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