A journal.

If I am unwilling to take responsibility for the attainment of my desires, they are not really desires — they are merely daydreams. For any professed desire to be taken seriously, I must be prepared to answer, in realistic terms: What am I willing to do to get what I want?

— Nathaniel Branden

Ben Franklin

Thomas Jefferson

a furlong is 660 feet.  there are 8 furlongs in a mile.

there was one furlong in American History X.

if that same furlong had been cast in 8 Mile,  there would have been 1 furlong in 8 Mile, not 8 furlongs in a mile.

so i’m pretty sure that’s why he didn’t get the part.