"You can't make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig."

-- Bob Akin

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“Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.”
“Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It's covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.”
“But it struck me that the extreme violence and cruelty of the English Civil War had gone understated.”
“Islam is not a race, yet Islamophobia partakes of racist characteristics.”
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
“The author describes how impressed she was with the detailed storyboards that outlined her movie â€“ "not just sketches, but real art". She then describes a Hawaiian sunset as, "God painting His storyboard on the sky".”
“I watch a lot of professional skating, and I am really looking forward to going to nationals.”
“These are your beautiful days, Julia Beckett," he promised softly.”

Source : Susanna Kearsley (2009). “Mariana”, p.268, Allison & Busby

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