"He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem."

-- Eddie Shaw

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“If you look at things as they are, there does not seem to be a code either of man or of God on which one can pattern one's conduct. Wrong triumphs over right as much as right over wrong. Sometimes its triumphs are greater. What happens ultimately, you do not know. In such circumstances what can you do but cultivate an utter indifference to all values? Nothing matters. Nothing whatever...”

Source : Khushwant Singh (2009). “Train to Pakistan”, p.181, Penguin Books India
“I'm very nearly drunk enough to be transcendent," Calla said after a space. She was not the only psychic drinking, but she was the closest one to transcendence. Persephone peered dubiously into the bottom of her own glass. In a very small voice (her voice was always small), she said sadly, "I am not drunk at all." Maura offered, "It's the Russian in you." "Estonian,"Persephone replied.”
“All believers can increase their commitment to God by reflecting on His faithfulness and by considering the forms such commitment should assume in their experience.”
“Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread of farming from those few sites of origin usually did not occur as a result of the hunter-gatherers' elsewhere adopting farming; hunter-gatherers tend to be conservative.... Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers' outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture.”
“I have never doped. I can say it again, but I've said it for seven years.”
“I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train.”

Source : Interview with Steven Horn, www.ign.com. February 18, 2004.
“Every tear from every eyeBecomes a babe in eternity.”
“If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.”

Source : Hal Borland (2014). “Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country”, p.77, Open Road Media

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