"Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others."

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Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

Jim Valvano

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“Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.”
“I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.”
“A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon.”
“Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.”
“To strip a man of all loyalties but those to the state, makes him not only a worm but a monster, without a shred of humanity.”

Source : Haniel Long (1950). “A letter to St. Augustine: after re-reading his confessions”
“I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.”
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”

Source : Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, 535 U.S. 234, 2002.
“Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.84, iUniverse

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