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Philip Gourevitch
“Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.”
Philip Gourevitch

Marjane Satrapi
“Cigarettes are food for the soul”
Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums

“The Jews hated us, and the Arabs despised their once allies. We'd walked away and left the country at war.”
Murray Bailey, The Prisoner of Acre

Alexander Hamilton
“By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.”
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When did you get in?’ We mainly just talked to get familiar with each other.”
Vernon Davis, Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond

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