Dean Tinney

“There’s no ‘I’ in the word team,” Winter would say to Jordan. “There is in the word win,” Jordan would respond.”
― Sam Smith, There Is No Next: NBA Legends on the Legacy of Michael Jordan

“Walpole, that life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel.”
― William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

“Albert Einstein wrote, “One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness.… Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life in order to find in this way the peace and security which he cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.”
― Leonard Mlodinow, The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos

“more than 1.8 million of them sent to prison camps. Now nearing the end of the standard eight-year term, the kulaks were soon to return; Stalin feared a wave of disgruntled and embittered people coming home. The hammer fell with a secret police order, No. 00447, in July 1937, which set the pattern for the mass killings of the following two years.”
― David E. Hoffman, The Billion Dollar Spy: A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal