"The controlling Intelligence understands its own nature, and what it does, and whereon it works."

-- Marcus Aurelius

“The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.”
“Track and field has always interested me.”
“I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.”
“Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life - for the changes, not only in my life, but my family's. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through.”
“Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.”

Source : "Colm Tóibín, novelist - portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2013.
“I just wanted to do something important.”
“If you don't break a hole through the brick wall, don't just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.”
“I didn't think it would be possible, but it appears Isiah Thomas is a worse general manager than coach.....”

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