"I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me."

-- Rafael Nadal

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“Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.”
“A thing which is present can be invisible, hidden by what it shows”
“I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom, and I were at the Japan pavilion of Epcot, and my dad was going to get me an origami book. They had these really sick origami books with an overleaf, but those packs can sometimes blow, because they give you, like, eight sheets.”

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“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”

Source : Treatise on Style pt. 1 (1928)
“For me, hearing the term 'apply yourself' was like a crucifix to Bella Lugosi's Dracula. 'Ahhh, it burns!'”

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“I guess you heard about this; the U.S. Olympic Committee is coming under fire after it was revealed that the uniforms for Team USA to be worn in the opening ceremony were made in China. Turns out they were made by some of the same kids who could beat us in gymnastics. That's the worst part.”
“The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.”
“It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.”

Source : William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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