"I'm always challenged by someone."

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Jackie Joyner-Kersee

“Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.”
“In chemistry, our theories are crutches; to show that they are valid, they must be used to walk... A theory established with the help of twenty facts must explain thirty, and lead to the discovery of ten more.”
“Mothers don't want to pinch me or put me in their purse.”
“It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now â€” girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.”
“Television has accustomed us to brief, intimate, telegraphic, visual, narrative messages. Candidates are learning to act, speak, and think in television's terms. In the process they are transforming speeches, debates, and their appearances in news into ads.”

Source : Kathleen Hall Jamieson (1993). “Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy”, p.206, Oxford University Press on Demand
“I am shamelessly biased about the people in my life, and it makes sense to me that other people are the same.”
“The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.”

Source : Interview with Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.
“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”

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