A Quote by Paulo Coelho

We must play music quietly, talk quietly, weep in private, because I am the all-powerful Zahir, who lays down the rules and determines the distance between railway tracks, the meaning of success, the best way to love, the importance of rewards.

Paulo Coelho

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Paulo Coelho
Brazilian - Novelist
Born: August 24, 1947

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A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

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Jeremy Wade

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Jim Lee

I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

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There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.

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