"What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it."

-- Dexter Gordon

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“I can't say that I follow a diet plan cause that would be a lie. I love eggs in the morning. I eat a lot of eggs. I love juice. I love sandwiches with protein and veggies. I love pasta with meat sauce. Anything that's a well-rounded meal, I'm really happy with. As long as there is good protein and veggies then I'm all good with some carbs.”
“I have been all men known to history , Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil , and the light blessing Innocent love under a spring sky .”

Source : "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.
“The main reason intuition is so important is this: It is a clear sign that you are connecting with your inner spiritual guidance system. Intuition is a direct signal from your deepest self that you are navigating from your true center.”

Source : Gay Hendricks (1996). “The Corporate Mystic: A Guidebook for Visionaries with Their Feet on the Ground”, Bantam
“When I started to sing, my mother would have me engaged to perform at the Women's Christian Temperance Union national or annual meetings. I would hate doing this because I wanted to play baseball or go off skiing.”
“Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.”
“Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.”
“I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.”
“I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue.”

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