"The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out."

-- Charlie Pierce

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“I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.”
“In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.”

Source : Mona Simpson (2011). “Anywhere but Here”, p.57, Vintage
“I remember being fascinated by the very nature of comedy from the age of 10; why is this funny, and that isn't?”
“All my own perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded upon Our Lady.”
“Not only did I feel hurt that she [Sarah Palin] sort of misdiagnosed all of these veterans, but I think she sort of was wrong in the way she talked about the issue.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Ask anyone what that means, what it means to see a miracle, and they will say that it's something impossible, but they mean that a miracle is something formerly believed to be impossible that turns out not to be, not to be impossible, in other words, but possible after all. If this were really true, then miracles would be the most ordinary things in the world, the most uninspiring things in the world, and what can one expect from people who have never been anything but ordinary and uninspired.”
“Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality carried to excess defeats itself.”
“An acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000 and 10,000 worth of electricity per year - which is far more than the value of the land's crop of corn or wheat.”

Source : Denis Hayes (2000). “The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair”, p.40, Island Press

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