"Costis bowed stiffly. â€œI am here to make sure that you stay in bed, Your Majesty, because if this offends you and you order me summarily executed, it is no loss. Politically speaking."

-- Megan Whalen Turner

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“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.”
“It is true, I thought. I am living a life.”

Source : Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.41, Granta Books
“I am not a philosopher.”
“The Jug Band was exactly what I wanted to do, and it wasn't my idea.”
“It is better to look suffering straight in the eye, acknowledge and respect itâ€™s presence, and then get busy as soon as possible focusing on things we choose to focus on.”
“Not in the swing of things but what I really mean is not in the swing of things yet”

Source : Song: Still Sane, Album: Pure Heroine, 2013
“Donâ€™t start a business. Find a problem, Solve a problem, The business comes second.”
“The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis origin of who we are: dust - dust that the Lord God used to make us a human being. If we cultivate a lively sense of our origin and nurture a sense of continuity with it, who knows, we may also acquire humility.”

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