"In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms."

-- Felix Marti-Ibanez

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“For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.”

Source : John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.454, Vintage
“Liaison usually involving two people and their dirty dishes.”

Source : "Abnormally Happy: A Gay Dictionary". Book by Richard Summerbell, 1985.
“I have always taken as the standard of the mode of teaching and writing, not the abstract, particular, professional philosopher, but universal man, that I have regarded man as the criterion of truth, and not this or that founder of a system, and have from the first placed the highest excellence of the philosopher in this, that he abstains, both as a man and as an author, from the ostentation of philosophy, i. e., that he is a philosopher only in reality, not formally, that he is a quiet philosopher, not a loud and still less a brawling one.”

Source : "The Essence of Christianity". Book by Ludwig Feuerbach (1841), Preface to Second Edition, 1843.
“I think in most companies you're surrounded by the past. You may have a Web site or archives or a lobby that sort of shows off your work of the past. The future is not as tangible.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I don't remember ever dressing up for Halloween but I must have. I do not like dressing up at all.”
“In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.”
“Happiness and health must be earned by absolute control of the emotional nature.”

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