"Without claiming superiority of intellectual over visual understanding, one is nevertheless bound to admit that the cinema allowsa number of Ã¦sthetic-intellectual means of perception to remain unexercised which cannot but lead to a weakening of judgment."

-- Johan Huizinga

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“All writers - all people - have their stores of private and family legends which lie like a collection of half-forgotten, often violent toys on the floor of memory.”
“The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“My daughter has always had a strong sense of her own identity. From the day she was born her father and I were in love with and in awe of her and still are.”
“The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools....And as for sustained yield, no such idea had ever entered their heads. The few friends the forest had were spoken of, when they were spoken of at all, as impractical theorists, fanatics, or "denudatics," more or less touched in the head. What talk there was about forest protection was no more to the average American that the buzzing of a mosquito, and just about as irritating.”
“For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.”

Source : Source: www.cbc.ca
“We were trying to show that you should be hopeful, you should be optimistic, but you have to be consistent and persistent, because it's not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year. It's the struggle of a lifetime. And so you're going to have to put in 40 or 50 years to reach that high-water mark.”

Source : "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.
“I am tired of hotels promising to go the extra mile only to have them refuse to go round the corner!”

Source : Richard Quest's blog for CNN, August 29, 2007.
“This joy that He brings us transcends every human trial, it is a joy that can strengthen even the weakest of hands”

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