"If you think about it, candidate Obama, Sen. Obama, was running on sort of long-run economic issues, like restoring prosperity to the middle class, dealing with the perennial problem of health care in the United States. He talked a lot about the budget deficit, about the need to transition to clean energy."

-- Christina Romer

#Running Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Class Quotes

“Besides, at 62 years old I look like I'm about 27.”
“I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.”
“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”

Source : Rosemary Sutcliff (2011). “The Eagle”, p.21, Macmillan
“Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.”
“The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.”
“I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.”

Source : "Life of Pi". www.imdb.com. 2012.
“When a chick has a sense of humor, theres nothing more attractive.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.”

Source : "Summit Series 40th Anniversary: Clarke’s Game 6 Slash on Kharlamov Was Turning Point for Team Canada" by Red Fisher, www.montrealgazette.com. September 24, 2012.

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