"My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle."

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Source : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.289, Bantam

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“Philosophers, for example, often fail to recognize that their remarks about the universe apply also to themselves and their remarks. If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so.”
“This year I'd rather lead the league in home runs, runs batted in and hitting.”
“Earth's sweat, the sea.”

Source : Parmenides, Empedocles (2011). “Parmenides and Empedocles: The Fragments in Verse Translation”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“If you try to improve the performance of a system of people, machines, and procedures by setting numerical goals for the improvement of individual parts of the system, the system will defeat your efforts and you will pay a price where you least expect it.”

Source : "Quality First: Selected Papers on Quality & Productivity Improvement". Book by Myron Tribus, Washington, D.C.: National Society of Professional Engineers (#1459), 1992.
“I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling.”

Source : FaceBook post by Cal Ripken Jr from Nov 14, 2012
“St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.”
“My life has been transformed by great teachers all the way...”

Source : "Jeff Goldblum Makes the Grade as "Seminar's" New Writing Coach". Interview with Robert Kahn, www.nbcnewyork.com. April 27, 2012.
“Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?”

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