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“I don't care what Tom Cruise says about therapy.”
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“Time, you'll be pleased to know--and since one must start somewhere--was created in creation. The question What was there before creation? is meaningless. Time is a property of creation, therefore before creation there was no before creation.”
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“The more and more that you dance, the easier it gets, and the more you can push yourself and do more rehearsals.”
Source : "Jonathan Bennett From Dancing with the Stars: The Best He Has Been". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
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“I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.”
Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1986). “The Solace of Open Spaces”, Penguin Group USA
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“In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.”
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“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.”
Source : Richard Rorty (1989). “Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity”, p.6, Cambridge University Press
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“Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.”
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“never trust a Troglotroll”
Source : Walter Moers (2006). “13 1/2 Lives of Captain Blue Bear”, p.358, The Overlook Press