"The crowd is not us. It never is."

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Source : Bill Buford (2011). “Among The Thugs”, p.190, Random House

Bill Buford

“we tend to attract the things we fear.”
“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”
“When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.”
“Aid is the process by which the poor in rich countries subsidize the rich in poor countries.”
“Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical and spiritual needs...We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us.”
“There is no limitation other than what you think.”

Source : Kenneth G. Mills (1996). “Change Your Standpoint, Change Your World”, Sun-Scape Publications
“The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.”
“I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.”

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