"If you want to be a top athlete you have to be a little bit wild, not be an accountant."

-- Renato Canova

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“So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.”

Source : Roald Dahl (2007). “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, p.135, Penguin
“In today's world it is deceptively easy to lose sight of our direction and the things that matter and give us joy. How quickly the days can slip by, the years all gone, and we, at the end of our lives, mourning the life we dreamed of but never lived. Poetry urges us to stand once and for all, and now, in the heart of our own life.”
“Some of what I wrote bordered on blasphemy....If there was a God, He would have to be truth. And in that case, candor--however impertinent--would be more pleasing to Him than posturing.”
“Every country gets fired up to play us. They played well. I thought when it was 2-1 that we had some chances to make it 3, 4-1. He made some saves and we just missed some shots. They got a break on their second, and the third period I thought we had a lot of chances, he made some big saves. We got it done in the shootout.”
“WithÂ Women, Chloe Caldwell is to Millennials what Anais Nin was to previous generationsâ€“a voice that is raw, intimate, thoughtful, compelling. Above all, heartbreakingly real.”
“Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the state of affairs in the Vatican in the last 35 years is well aware that the prince of darkness has had and still has his surrogates in the court of St. Peter in Rome.”
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.”

Source : Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books
“How can we be â€œfreeâ€ as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We canâ€™t.”

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