"Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets"

-- Emmanuel Mounier

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“I'm a wealthy man now. I've got a flat, a car, I have enough money to buy food. I skate to make the people happy. If somebody skates to earn money, I don't care. I skate for the people. Besides, it's pleasant to supply Russia with gold medals.”
“What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.”

Source : Mu Soeng, Jaimal Yogis (2010). “Saltwater Buddha: A Surfers Quest to Find Zen on the Sea (Large Print 16pt)”, p.72, ReadHowYouWant.com
“Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.”
“The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches do not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us. We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him”

Source : Menachem Begin's speech at the National Defense College, www.nytimes.com. August 8, 1982.
“No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.”
“Success brings poise, especially avoirdupois. Success comes before work only in the dictionary.”
“The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God.”
“The reason for your entire salvation, the design behind your deliverance, the purpose for which God chose you in the first place is holiness.”

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