"Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner."

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Source : Dervla Murphy (2001). “South From the Limpopo”, p.235, The Overlook Press

Dervla Murphy

#Events Quotes #Buying Quotes #Partners Quotes

“Wayne Brady, I donâ€™t understand why people keep joking that youâ€™re not black. Wayne Brady, you are BLACK. After all, I only remember you for all the years you played an uppity slave on â€˜Whoâ€™s Line is it Anyway?â€™.”
“That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest.”
“In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.”
“We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.”

Source : Eugene J. McCarthy (1975). “The hard years: a look at contemporary America and American institutions”, Viking Pr
“The worst fear in the hearings was that you would get some evil interrogator: you could never know what might happen then. No one who lives in a free country will ever understand that kind of fear. What is most horrifying is the realization that you have no idea what can happen, that your life is totally in the hands of someone in the chair in front of you, someone might well be a demon.”
“Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?”
“The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.”
“It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.”

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