"The destructive one-fourth must be eliminated from the social body."

-- Barbara Marx Hubbard

#Body Quotes #Social Quotes #Fourth Quotes

“There is some secret stirring in the world, / A thought that seeks impatiently its word.”

Source : Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Thomas Forbes Kelsall, Charles Dacres Bevan (1851). “Memoir. The second brother. Torrismond. Dramatic scenes and fragments. Miscellaneous poems. Poetic fragments. Appendix. Notes”, p.121
“The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied. The reason to stand up for punctuation is that without it there is no reliable way of communicating meaning.”

Source : "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation". Book by Lynne Truss, November 6, 2003.
“I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.”
“The telling of stories, like singing and praying, would seem to be an almost ceremonial act, an ancient and necessary mode of speech that tends the earthly rootedness of human language. For narrated events always happen somewhere. And for an oral culture, that location is never merely incidental to those occurrences. The events belong, as it were, to the place, and to tell the story of those events is to let the place itself speak through the telling.”

Source : David Abram (2012). “The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World”, p.163, Vintage
“Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? [...] failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.”
“My sense of style is an old Polo shirt, jeans and, unfortunately for the longest time, white running shoes, which was not attractive. The one thing I've learned about clothes is to ask a girl.”
“Truth is a pathless land.”
“You become courageous by doing courageous acts...Courage is a habit.”

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