"The proper word for me," Robin Goodman says, "is me."

-- Ali Smith

“Iâ€™m not sure what Iâ€™ll do, butâ€” well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale.”
“Coming into the Games I knew I was in five events but I didn't expect to get a medal in every distance, especially the 5,000.”
“With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.”
“You can't be a legend in your parent's basement.”
“What we make testifies who we are. People can sense care and can sense carelessness.”
“In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes.”
“Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.”
“Education is something that other people do to you. Learning is something you do for yourself.”

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