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But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them. ↗

— Julius Erving

#affluent #because #choosing #chosen #cognizant

There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want to relate to other people's lives, things that had really happened. ↗

— Julius Erving

#adult life #began #biographies #books #fiction

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#deep #deep down #down #immortal #know

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#i #known #state #uncertainty #unknown

When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. ↗

— Julius Erving

#career #could #envy #family #family life

When the crowd appreciates you, it encourages you to be a little more daring, I think. ↗

— Julius Erving

#crowd #daring #encourages #i #i think

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#conception #create #fact #future #just

Our purpose in this project is to begin to turn that fear of cancer, actually America's greatest fear, into a future, not only free of fear, but full of hope. ↗

— Andrew von Eschenbach

#america #begin #cancer #fear #free

Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept. ↗

— Robert Bork

#commands #concept #fashion #intellectual #law

Now very often events are set up for photographers... The weddings are orchestrated about the photographers taking the picture, because if it hasn't been photographed it doesn't really exist. ↗

— Elliott Erwitt

#because #been #events #exist #hasn