"The sweetest cordial we receive at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past."

-- William Goffe

#Past Quotes #Lasts Quotes #Action Quotes

“We can no longer communicate with the apes by direct language, nor can we understand, without special study, their modes of communication which we have long since replaced by more elaborate forms. But it is at least presumable that they could still detect in our speech, at least when it is public and elaborate, the underlying tone values with which it began. Thus if we could take a gibbon ape to a college public lecture, he would not understand it, but he would "get a good deal of it." This is all the students get anyway.”
“The winds awaken, the leaves whirl round, Our cheeks are pale, our hair is unbound, Our breasts are heaving, our eyes are agleam, Our arms are waving, our lips are apart....”
“Man, I'm just into Buddhism, and I'm at peace with the fact that me, as this person, probably gonna not be around. Think about a hermit crab, okay? And it's a shell. It's like, they go from one shell to the next. And that's what I am. I'm just a hermit crab changin' shells.”

Source : "Fictional character: Red". "Pineapple Express", www.imdb.com. 2008.
“The party at its best has always been a modern party.”
“Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.”

Source : Nicholson Baker (2010). “Mezzanine”, p.13, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.”
“Know what you want to do - then do it. Make straight for your goal and go undefeated in spirit to the end.”
“Consistency is the DNA of mastery”

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