"Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we're coming in there to shake things up!"

-- Tom Toles

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“Broken by hardships, disappointments and tragedy, people can become discouraged and cynical. But lives can also be mended. Put back together well, they won't be just like they were before. Damaged pieces reassembled with a golden bonding of patience and love will help form a person into an exquisite masterpiece. It is as if people have to be broken before they can become whole and complete.”
“I was lingering out on the pavement. There was a missing person inside of myself and I needed to find him . . . I felt done for, an empty burned-out wreck . . . Wherever I am, I'm a '60s troubadour, a folk-rock relic, a wordsmith from bygone days, a fictitious head of state from a place nobody knows.”
“In holding your antagonist, therefore, you should hold him lightly as if your arms were nothing but chains which connect you with him, so that you may stretch or contract them at will when necessary, and pull or push him in any direction you choose. If you pull your opponent or apply your tricks on him by putting from the beginning too much strength in your arms, then you are going to contest with him by means of your power and against the principles of Judo. In doing so, you can never expect to succeed in your contest.”
“I don't think it's tough to get there mentally. Your mind is saying, 'You know how to do this.' But your body doesn't always respond.”
“If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.”
“Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.”
“My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.”

Source : Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.276, Melville House
“Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways”

Source : Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.43, Penguin

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