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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
But the memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so- called peace treaties.
The thing that I would say is that U.S. power is not eternal. I am not saying that it won't come to an end. Because it will.
The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said, 'A civilization is judged only in its decline.' That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
The mind is pretty powerful. In skating, you learn to click into that zone and focus not necessarily on what you're doing but if you're doing it well.
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.