"When it comes to federal programs, even if states are discriminating, the federal government should not."

-- Evan Wolfson

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“Put aside ambition for public recognition, and simply do what you do because it feels good inside.”
“I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.”
“We have carried out the attempted premeditated murder of an entire nation. We were caught in that criminal act and have been obstructed. Now we have to suffer the punishment.... In the Balkan Wars, Serbia not only doubled its territory, but also its external enemies.”
“It may be said of happy marriages as of the phoenix - there is but one a century.”
“I never taste the wine first in restaurants, I just ask the waiter to pour.”
“Often beauty grows dull or common when speech breaks the mask ...”

Source : Mary Renault (1974). “The Mask of Apollo”
“What is there more of in the world than anything else? Ends.”
“Ultimately when you have the perspective of why you're competing and what you're trying to pursue, the rest just falls into place.”

Source : "A conversation with U.S. Olympic gold medalist diver David Boudia". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. 2012.

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