"Cycling is so hard, the suffering is so intense, that itâ€™s absolutely cleansing. The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brainâ€¦.Once; someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long. â€˜PLEASURE???? I said.â€™ â€˜I donâ€™t understand the question.â€™ I didnâ€™t do it for the pleasure; I did it for the pain."

-- Lance Armstrong

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“By 1833 the largest publisher in America, Harper and Company, boasted one horse-powered printing press and seven hand presses while the American Bible Society owned 16 new state-of-the-art, steam-driven presses and 20 hand presses.”
“So, you play today! You don't worry about what's gone, 'cause that's already gone and you can't bring what's gone back. It doesn't happen that way. So, every day's a new day and just play it as it comes. And I turned out to be a singer that was not on dope.”
“However, the resources at our people's disposal are very few and we require assistance from the neighboring Arab countries, and for weapons in order to fight the enemy.”
“Here we may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her Cost and Finery upon this small Speck of Dirt.”

Source : Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.10
“I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.”
“I will see you tomorrow, if God wills it.”

Source : Last words, September 28, 1978.
“Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact.”

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