"As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time."

-- Magic Johnson

#Athlete Quotes #Common Quotes #Injury Quotes

“There's nothing cooler than someone explaining to you, as if it was easy, how they create antimatter. And they kept saying things like, "Well obviously you know that..."”
“You see, Mr. President - real leaders don't follow polls. Real leaders change polls.”

Source : Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.foxnews.com. August 28, 2012.
“I could go away five or six weeks in a row and never touch a club. I would just look at them and say, 'I just don't want to; it's not that important.' And it wasn't that important. Golf - I don't want to answer loosely - I pay a lot of attention to it, but I don't ever really think about it.”
“Many of us are caught in separateness and we look for love out there, out there. But then as we proceed inside there will be the love. The universe is an example of love. Like a tree. Like the ocean. Like my body. Like my wheelchair. I see the love.”
“I do not like to write - I like to have written.”
“People are even more reluctant to admit that man explains nothing, than they were to admit that God explains nothing.”

Source : Ernest Gellner (1979). “Legitimation of Belief”, p.99, CUP Archive
“To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.”
“The only religion that can satisfy today's ideal is a religion that will give consecration to life, and direction to human endeavor, inspire men with faith in themselves, dedicate them to high moral purpose, and give them the strength to live through their failures, and to face with high courage their supreme tragedies.”

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