"Write it down, boy. If you come across a passage in your reading that youâ€™d like to remember, write it down in your little book; then you can read it again, memorize it, and have it whenever you wish."

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Keith Donohue

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“Maybe one day the old guys will die off and things will change, 'cuz it's officially getting scary over here in America.”
“The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.”
“When I was your age, I used to treat the crust like it was just there to hold the good stuff in. I used to leave the whole back end of it on the plate. As I got older, I learned to appreciate the crust.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rube Sofer". TV Series "Dead Like Me" ("Ghost Story", 2004), 2003-2004.
“People are easily intimidated when they decorate their home. They think it has to be one way. But there's no one way. It's your way, your style. At the end of the day, you have to live there. It's your cocoon, your nest. You have to be happy in it.”

Source : "Big, Easy Style: Creating Rooms You Love to Live In". Book by Bryan Batt, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2011.
“When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.”

Source : Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, Betty Sue Flowers (2005). “Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society”, p.226, Crown Business
“Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.”
“What the hell did we do to deserve this?”

Source : "BP’s Slick Greenwashing" by James Ridgeway, www.motherjones.com. May 4, 2010.
“The enemy is like a woman, weak in face of opposition, but correspondingly strong when not opposed. In a quarrel with a man, it is natural for a woman to lose heart and run away when he faces up to her; on the other hand, if the man begins to be afraid and to give ground, her rage, vindictiveness and fury overflow and know no limit.”

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