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“Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me”
Source : "'Working in Front of the Camera Keeps Me Alive'". TIME Asia interview, www.cnn.com. December 27, 1999. 
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“When we are very young, we tend to regard the ability to use a colon much as a budding pianist regards the ability to play with crossed hands: many of us, when we are older, regard it as a proof of literary skill, maturity, even of sophistication; and many; whether young, not so young, or old, employ it gauchely, haphazardly, or at best inconsistently.”
Source : Eric Partridge (2003). “You Have a Point There: A Guide to Punctuation and Its Allies”, p.54, Routledge
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“He swept Raisa up into his arms and kissed her like it was his first, last, and only”
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“The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.”
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“One cannot live with sighted eyes and feeling heart and not know and read of the miseries which affect the world.”
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“The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen.”
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“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.”
Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.106, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
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“I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.”
