"I am here to give my players the little push they need, just like they needed long ago, when first learning the art of the swing. All you needed then was a little push, and quickly you were pumping away, flying higher and higher, without any more help from the 'coach.'"

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John Kessel

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“Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.”

Source : "Accelerated Learning in Practice". Book by Alistair Smith, p. 234, 1998.
“We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, JosÃ© Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."”

Source : Octavio Paz (1987). “1904-1912”, San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
“Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully”
“I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being as creative as you could be -you aren't stretching your imagination.”
“I'm into creating something that I've never created before.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.”

Source : "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.
“I never have people tell me their stories. I usually have to figure them out myself. Because I know that if people tell me stories, they will expect them to be remembered. And I cannot guarantee that. There is no way to know if the stories stay after I'm gone. And how devastating would it be to confide in someone and have the confidence disappear? I don't want to be responsible for that.”
“I do here in the most solemn and bitter manner curse the Prime Minister of England for having cumulated all his other betrayals of the national interest and honour, by his last terrible exhibition of dishonour, weakness and gullibility. The depths of infamy which our accurst "love of peace" can lower us are unfathomable.”

Source : "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 47), 1999.

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