Daniel Flanagan

“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”
― Eliud Kipchoge

“We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans—born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage—and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.”
― John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage

“Human beings need to give and receive love. Does it really matter whom we choose to love so long as we are loving?”
― Merle Miller, On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual

“We all love a good story, a concise explanation of how the world works. We all love an easy buck. Temptation has driven human folly for centuries, whether the serpent in the Garden of Eden or the market manias of cryptocurrency or artificial intelligence. Each wave seduces us into thinking that we’ve learned from history and, this time, we can’t be fooled. Then it happens again. This is how it happened in 1929.”
― Andrew Ross Sorkin, 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation