"If you haven't failed, you haven't tried very hard...."

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Shirley Hufstedler

“One cannot be strong without love. For love is not an irrelevant emotion; it is the blood of life.”
“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isnâ€™t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”
“It's fun to come back to the town where I went to school and see all the new Wildcat players”
“If you want to get on in life get off your arse because it ain't going to come to you. And if it does come to you and you're not off your arse then you ain't going to keep it very long.”

Source : "Ray Winstone: What I've Learned" by Ben Mitchell, www.esquire.com. November 12, 2014.
“Life's harder, the deeper you feel things, was all I could think as I put the books away. Feelings, who needs them? Sometimes they're like a gift, when you feel love or happiness. Sometimes they're a curse.”
“There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.”
“Mayweather likes to say he is better than Sugar Ray Robinson, but I think it is more important for him to keep the zero on his record than it is to fight Manny. We hope the opportunity comes for a fight with Mayweather, but Manny is going to continue to fight, even if it means moving up in weight to go after nine titles.”
“The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.”

Source : Michael Parenti (2013). “Contrary Notions: The Michael Parenti Reader”, p.36, City Lights Books

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