"I haven't always recruited for the best talent. I've taken a few guys who would fit for different reasons. Leadership. Toughness"

-- Tom Izzo

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“Technologies of easy travel "give us wings; they annihilate the toil and dust of pilgrimage; they spiritualize travel! Transition being so facile, what can be any man's inducement to tarry in one spot? Why, therefore, should he build a more cumbrous habitation than can readily be carried off with him? Why should he make himself a prisoner for life in brick, and stone, and old worm-eaten timber, when he may just as easily dwell, in one sense, nowhere,-in a better sense, wherever the fit and beautiful shall offer him a home?”
“In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.”
“I have a very extreme state of mind. Things are very black or very white.”
“There are no limits, only obstacles, and any obstacle can be overcome.”
“Teaching, I find, is not the most amusing thing on earth; in fact, with a stupid lump for a Pupil, it is about the most irksome.”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1909). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”
“True friendshipship is like phosphorescence-it glows best when the world around you goes dark.”
“I never knew anyone who came close to Marilyn in natural ability to use both photographer and still camera. She was special in this, and for me there has been no one like her before or after. She has remained the measuring rod by which I have - unconsciously - judged other subjects.”

Source : Eve Arnold (1987). “Marilyn Monroe--an appreciation”, Alfred A. Knopf
“It is on!" Aech shouted into his comlink. "it is on like Red Dawn!”

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