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If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.


Andres Iniesta


#more #sacrifice #satisfying #struggled #win

I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.


Neil Innes


#desperately #girl #go #guys #handle

It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?


Neil Innes


#come #did #does #get #good

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.


Elizabeth Taylor


#generally #going #people #pretty #problem

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.


Sylvia Plath


#back #between #days #exclusive #flying

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.


Terry Pratchett


#coming #course #having #insist #mind

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.


Groucho Marx


#art #everywhere #finding #incorrectly #looking

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.


Sylvia Townsend Warner


#death-and-dying #age

The Guide says there is an art to flying", said Ford, "or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.


Douglas Adams


#flying #hg #art

Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.


Ray Bradbury


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