Kvell: (Yiddish) To delight especially in the fortune of others.

Schadenfreude: (German) To delight in the misfortune of others.

"There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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hogtown

"Toronto is not a good looking city."
- Anthony Bourdain

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Wildcats

"The best players I've coached thought that they weren't good enough."
- University of Kentucky head basketball coach John Calipari

on war

"The comparison is hardly fair to hell."

Courage is the most important virtue because it enables all the others.
- Aristotle paraphrased

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"If you compressed the atmosphere down to the density of water it'd be 30 feet deep."
- Ken Caldeira, Stanford University

routine

"I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say."
- Flannery O'Connor

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down & out in Las Vegas

"This is great, but you can't eat the scenery."
- Literal starving artist J.D. Fortune

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etiquette

"Even if it's 'no', always respond."
- Deputy White House Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco

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action painter

"Sometimes the long-shots pay-off the biggest."
- Vince Vaughn in "The Internship"

on strategy

"Retreat and attack in another direction."
- Ronnie Hawkins

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bird brain

Crows are smarter than dogs. Extraordinary problem solving skills. On par with chimps even though their brains are a fraction of the size. They make tools. They learn from each other.

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sleep

"The biggest mistakes I made were when I was tired."
- Bill Clinton

'The toes you step on today are connected to the behinds you'll have to kiss on the way down.'
- Quincy Jones as related by Stewart Copeland

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"I am a man more sinned against than sinning."

- King Lear

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be not too radical

"Near the end of his life Walt Whitman advised Horace Traubel to 'be radical-be radical-be not too damned radical!' As early as 1930 Vernon Parrington's Main Currents in American Thought identified this remark as a key to Whitman's character and outlook."

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on success

"It's not all about you. I can't all be about you."
- Pharrell Williams

prostitution

"If you're going to be a hooker, at least charge a lot."
- Michael Caine

on extreme sports

"Skaters always get banged up but they don't die; surfers never get banged up but they can die."
- Attributed to Kelly Slater by Nicolas Cage

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wrestler

"The process of writing is a lot like the practising of a sport; no one sees you do it; no one is clapping. There's no win or lose; it's just repetition; it's just a kind of drilling and it's where you'll spend most of your life as an artist or as an athlete."
- John Irving

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"Lyndon Johnson was thirteen of the most interesting and difficult people I ever met."
- Bill Moyers

"The more user friendly it is, the more likely it'll be used."
- Bill Clinton