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“Every year the media comes up with something to describe my race … The first year it was "the comeback." Then it was the "the confirmation." I don't know what it was last year. This year, for me, it's "the year of the team." I can't say how I compare to the rider I was in 1999 or 2000 or 2001, but this team is much stronger than it has ever been. It has made it easier for me.”

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued, until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. In a society, under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign, as in a state of nature where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger: And as in the latter state even the stronger individuals are prompted by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak, as well as themselves: so in the former state, will the more powerful factions be gradually induced by a like motive, to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful.”

“Seeing therefore they are both [heat and pain] immediately perceived at the same time, and the fire affects you only with one simple, or uncompounded idea, it follows that this same simple idea is both the intense heat immediately perceived, and the pain; and consequently, that the intense heat immediately perceived, is nothing distinct from a particular sort of pain.”

“Must being in love always mean being in pain?”

“… just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.”

“Plus, humor is a good way to hide the pain. - Leo”

“There are kinds of pain that you can't speak out loud.”

“My rapier wit hides my inner pain.”

“Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.”

“you’d think that silence would be peaceful. but really, it’s painful.”

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”

“Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..”

“Pain is the world. I don't have anywhere to run.”

“She gave me for my pains a world of sighs.”

“… when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.”

“We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.”

“You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.”

“The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.”

“Pain or love or danger makes you real again….”