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“When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
“There is simply no substitute for forceful American leadership. Sometimes the best way to get allies is to be willing to forge ahead alone.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jeffree Star from Apr 05, 2011
“Never take a seat in the back of the room. Winners sit up front.”
“He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.”
“Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?”

Source : "Vintage Keating". Book by Brian Carroll, 2010.
“When you're mired in the depths of depression, it's impossible to believe that anything can get better, but it can and it will. Seek out low-cost or free counseling. Get help and support from your community and stick with it until you can afford some fancy private shrink. Do anything. Join a church group if you have to. It doesn't have to be about religion, it's about not feeling alone. Also, do not be afraid to go to the emergency room. I've been there.”
“Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.”
“We live in a world in which we are able to communicate very quickly in many different ways, and yet we find communicating more difficult than ever. When in fact we need communication more urgently than ever, because the enemies that threaten us are universal: drugs, illiteracy and crime. We have to fight against them together.”

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