"I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids."

-- Picabo Street

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“People exaggerate their own skills. they are optimistic about their prospects and overconfident about their guesses, including which managers to pick.”
“Curiously, for all the outpourings of scholarship on Theodore Roosevelt, no one had written a book focused directly on his leadership approach, working in large part from his own letters and other writings. That opportunity was open, and I was privileged to step in.”
“What did Bush do on 9/11? He ran away and hid. Even Reagan knew more about leadership than that, and he was as bad a symbol of America as I can think of, off-hand. But at least he's been in enough cowboy movies to know he had to come out and stand on top of the rubble and be seen shaking his fist or something.”
“In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.”
“Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'”
“The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises”
“One possessed a thousand and three women (in Spain alone), the other only one. But it is multiplicity that is impoverished, whilethe entire world is concentrated in a single being infinitely possessed. Tristan no longer needs the world--because he loves! While Don Juan, always loved, cannot love in return. Hence his anguish and his frenzied course.”

Source : Denis de Rougemont (1963). “Love Declared: Essays on the Myths of Love”
“When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.”

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