"I was the best street fighter in history when I was growing up on the Lower East Side. Hell, I never lost a street fight. Never. I thought I could lick Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis or anybody. I was fantastic."

-- Rocky Graziano

#Growing Up Quotes #Fighting Quotes #East Quotes

“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
“A bear and a deer are both wild animals. We allow the deer to roam in our backyard but we do not give the same right to the bear. It is because the bear is dangerous. Neither the bear nor the deer have rights. We humans give them rights. Taking in account our own security, we give to some animals some rights and deny the same to other animals.”

Source : Source: myislam.dk
“A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.”
“India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.”
“Being honest doesn't mean you say whatever you want, wherever you want. It means that what you choose to say is true.”
“To discover one's own spiritual poverty is to achieve a positive conquest by the spirit.”

Source : William Barrett (2011). “Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy”, p.46, Anchor
“People really don't know the extent of what I actually do. I'm not one of those rappers... "Hey! Make a hit. Throw it on an album! Sit at home and make more music." I put 4 or 5 mixtapes out and do shows all year long.”

Source : Source: uproxx.com
“Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking”

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