"My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to become a physician."

-- Peter Diamandis

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“The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?”
“Unless what you say benefits the other person, don't say it.”
“Sense of humor: A thread of illuminated intelligence that links two opposite ideas.”
“If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire”
“We live in a time of record breaking crisis but it's also a time of record breaking vision”
“How can you lose when you're doing you?”

Source : Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, 92nd Street Y (92Y), 1992.
“Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.”
“While the impostor draws his identity from past achievements and the adulation of others, the true self claims identity in its belovedness. We encounter God in the ordinariness of life: not in the search for spiritual highs and extraordinary, mystical experiences but in our simple presence in life.”

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