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“The contemporary rejection of natural right leads to nihilism — nay, it is identical with nihilism,”
Source : Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.5, University of Chicago Press
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“Laughter... the most civilized music in the world.”
Source : Dear Me (1977) ch. 3
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“I live on a boat, which is in the midst of renovation. I figure the good Lord will put me in the right place and hopefully I'll have the right clothes on. I think what we're going to do is bring the boat through the Panama Canal. My husband has always wanted to do that. So I think we'll do that and have the boat in Florida for the winter.”
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“one question for me and others like me is whether ... we will get truly distressed, even outraged, about unearned race advantage and conferred dominance and, if so, what we will do to lessen them.”
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“To win, you have to lose, and then get pissed off.”
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“I am not here only so that the blind might see, but to teach those who thought they could see that they are blind”
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“Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.”
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“Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.”
Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013. 
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“You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds”
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“Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all”
