"To me, first and foremost, basketball is a fun sport. It is a hobby, an interest. And second, it is a profession. I feel that I am very fortunate that I can find a professional job that I really, really love."

-- Yao Ming

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“How can you build a relationship when you're just sending out beats? Most people will come in and play their beats, but I like to make mine on the spot.”
“Nothing excites compassion, in friend and foe alike, as much as the sight of you ker-splonked on the Tarmac with your propeller buried six feet under.”
“You can believe in women's rights without believing that every woman is right.”
“If your God is going to drown the world; if your God is going to bring a flood, then why don't you pick a different God?”
“The need to speak the truth and even to seek it for oneself is only conceivable in so far as the individual thinks and acts as one of a society, and not of any society (for it is just the constraining relations between superior and inferior that often drive the latter to prevarication) but of a society founded on reciprocity and mutual respect, and therefore on cooperation.”
“Be who you are in every situation.”
“It is not in the bright, happy day, but only in the solemn night, that other worlds are to be seen shining in their long, long distances. And it is in sorrow - the night of the soul - that we see farthest, and know ourselves natives of infinity, and sons and daughters of the Most High.”

Source : William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.379
“Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more, but images we have of that reality.”

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