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Andrea Bocelli · Bill Parcells · Commitment To Excellence · John le Carre, "The Chancellor Who Agreed To Play Spy, in The New York Times, May 8, 1974 · Jonathan Swift, Miscellanies, 1711 · Marty Bucella · Rob Cella · Saadi, On the Excellence of Contentment

It was a world which granted privileges to some and imposed prohibitions on others...Endowed with strength and eager to learn, one had to drag himself in a narrow prison cell when he could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when he could feel the beatings of a heart; and when he believed himself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream. – Dr. Jose P. Rizal
John Johnson Now this is something the other tour guides won't tell you. In this particular cell-block, Machine Gun Kelly had what we call in the prison system, a bitch. And one night in a jealous rage Kelly took a make-shift knife or shiv, and cut out the bitch's eyes. And as if this wasn't enough retribution for Kelly, the next day he and four other inmates took turns pissing into the bitch's ocular cavities. (short pause) This way to the cafeteria – So I Married an Axe Murderer
Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today. – Godfather, The
Being plied with fine food always puts me in mind of the slammer, cause the food was jumpin' in there too--high in fat but nice and salty. You know what the worst deprivation in there was My music. Radio belonged to my cell mate, the Blonde Hammer. He was into that jazz-fusion thing at the time. I tell you what, enough Spyro Gyra and you're hoping you'll get killed in a knife fight. – Barbara Hall
Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state of the soul than in outer space. – Dejan Stojanovic
Even as the cell is the unit of the organic body, so the family is the unit of society. – Ruth Nanda Anshen
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. – Edward Abbey
If I was being executed by injection, I'd clean up my cell real neat. Then, when they came to get me, I'd say, 'Injection I thought you said inspection'.' They'd probably feel real bad, and maybe I could get out of it. – Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
It is impossible to go through life without trust That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. – Graham Greene
It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. – Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear
We all use our imagination every day. However, most of us are unaware that what we envision affects every cell of our bodies and every aspect of our performance. – Marilyn King
We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell. – Clarence Darrow

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