"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day youâ€™re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how youâ€™ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before youâ€™ll be dead."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.”
“Need A Six In Pressure Situation? Call MS DHONI.”
“I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.”

Source : Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.45, Triumph Books
“The conventional wisdom is often wrong. Crime didn't keep soaring in the 1990s, money alone doesn't win elections, and - surprise - drinking eight glasses of water a day has never actually been shown to do a thing for your health. Conventional wisdom is often shoddily formed and devilishly difficult to see through, but it can be done.”

Source : "Think Like a Freak extract: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and David Cameron" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2014.
“I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.”
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
“The marathon's about being in contention over the last 10K. That's when it's about what you have in your core. You have run all the strength, all the superficial fitness out of yourself, and it really comes down to what's left inside you. To be able to draw deep and pull something out of yourself is one of the most tremendous things about the marathon.”
“I am about as detailed as a shadow.”

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