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		I know I have a caption that I'm going to use when somebody tells me something I've never heard before. It's very rarely a thought, a philosophy, when somebody says, 'Oh, I don't like cheese' or 'Oh, I think the government should be overthrown,' because so many people share these thoughts. But what people don't share is stories.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brandon Stanton 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				H. L. Mencken 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Octavia Spencer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Randy Neugebauer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Saint Teresa of Avila 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Daniel Barenboim 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gagan Narang 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie -- bullshit, in other words -- because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation -- a misrepresentation. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Lilly 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Arthur Schopenhauer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When I look back, I didn't take care of myself at all. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Joe Cocker 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		'Buy my soda!' said the Moose Diarrhea Salesman. And we did. We all did. But when we got it home and opened up the package, it was not what they said it was. And rather than chucking it all and searching for something better, we're content with looking for another Moose Diarrhea Salesman. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Eric Reed Boucher 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Magnus Scheving 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I know I have a caption that I'm going to use when somebody tells me something I've never heard before. It's very rarely a thought, a philosophy, when somebody says, 'Oh, I don't like cheese' or 'Oh, I think the government should be overthrown,' because so many people share these thoughts. But what people don't share is stories. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Brandon Stanton