"In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into ruthlessness. Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion, even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless."

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“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.”

Source : Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.
“When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.”
“Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.”
“Your attitude determines your altitude. Your ambitions are bigger than life Of course. They must be. They encompass it.”
“Take good care of the things you have. Careless people spend more for a given standard of living.”
“If you do a little bit of looking at books with your children and inspire them to be curious about the pictures and ... what the word means, but don't get into very structured systematic teaching at too early an age, ... and you also interact emotionally and have fun with pretend play ... then you have the best of both worlds.”

Source : "How to boost babies' brain power", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2002.
“For the lazy, all work is difficult.”

Source : Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (2016). “Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze”, p.211, Macmillan
“I did a 'Children of the Corn' remake for Sci Fi Channel. I play the Peter Horton role from the original, and Candace McClure from 'Battlestar Galactica' is my Linda Hamilton.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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