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“The Modern Self must confront the shadow of hubris.”
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“Life is not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between.”
Source : "I Like You". Song by Ben Rector, 2013.
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“I must confess I am a fop in my heart; ill customs influence my very senses, and I have been so used to affectation that without the help of the air of the court what is natural cannot touch me.”
Source : 1688 Letter to Mr Poley, 12 Jan.
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“Today I will honor, cherish, and love myself. When I get confused about what to do, I just have to remember that I need to be true to myself. I will break free of the hold that others-and their expectations-ha ve on me.”
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“In football, time and space are the same thing.”
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“We know sugar increases insulin, but even by itself sugar is bad for you.”
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“The enemy is in front of us, the enemy is behind us, the enemy is to the right and to the left of us. They can't get away this time!”
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“I want to live in a city where the police don't shoot you.”
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“Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?”
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“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.”
Source : Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.441, Dell
