"The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change."

-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Time stoops to no man's lure.”

Source : Algernon Charles Swinburne (1866). “Laus Veneris, and other poems and ballads. [Orig. publ. as Poems and ballads]. Author's ed”, p.192
“Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.”
“Man is what he believes.”
“I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.”
“I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.”
“Joy is spiritual and far grittier than happiness, and far more robust.”
“Finally, it occurs to me that the biggest problem with our elections is that however you vote, you wind up electing a politician.”
“Don't think of it as wrinkles. Think of ot as relaxed-fit skin.”

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