"It is true to say that the secret of a winning formula is the ability to accept that there is a vast area of unexploited potential beyond what you currently perceive to be your maximum."

-- Steve Backley

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“I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.”
“I see a lot of comments on Twitter and stuff about how ugly I am, how bad I am at the drums, how awkward I look, and I'm like, yeah, I agree with most of those things.”

Source : "The Rise of the Black Keys" by Brian Hiatt, www.rollingstone.com. January 19, 2012.
“Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East - I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.”
“You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”
“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”
“But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.”

Source : Vincent O'Sullivan, James K. Baxter (1976). “James K. Baxter”
“Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation.”
“I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.”

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