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“Every soul who comes to earth with a leg or two at birth must wrestle his opponents knowing its not what is, but what can be that measures worth. Make it hard, just make it possible and through pain, I wont complain. My spirit is unconquerable. Fearless I will face each foe for I know I am capable. I don't care whats probable, through blood sweat and tears I am unstoppable.”
Source : "Jay Leno Honors Anthony Robles". www.hollywoodreporter.com. 2011. 
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“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”
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“The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.”
Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.64, Delphi Classics
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“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
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“Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.”
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“If we could manage our own finances the way the Congress does the nation's, we'd all be living in high cotton and eating high on the hog.”
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“It's hard, Cotton. To let yourself love something you know you may never have.”
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“I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it's easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it's warm or cold. It's great. That was the start.”
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“A much larger value is consumed in lettuces than in pineapples,throughout Europe at large; and the superb shawls of Cachemere are, in France, a very poor object in trade, in comparison with the plain cotton goods of Rouen.”
