"The ever-whirling wheele Of Change, to which all mortal things doth sway."

-- Edmund Spenser

“Giving advice is many times only the privilege of saying a foolish thing one's self, under the pretense of hindering another from doing one.”
“The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.”
“The word sacred comes from sacrifice, to cut up. That means that in order to have a sacred journey, you have to give up something, sacrifice; but few people today in the West want to hear about that. Americans want the boon without the labyrinth.Pilgrimage starts the wheel, it turns the wheel of samsara, the wheel of life, and we have to live with the consequences.”
“As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad.”
“I don't see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.”
“I don't think I'll ever calm down. I'm afraid that's me. Honestly, I'll just take one massive big 'woof' and I shall be gone. Heart - gone!”
“There are so many girls, and so few princes.”
“Discover how beautiful our country is and how wonderful our people are. Time to fall in love with the Philippines.”

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