"I'd like to prove to other people that it's not the end of everything to be diagnosed with cancer."

-- Christopher Hitchens

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“Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”

Source : George Lakoff, Mark Johnson (2008). “Metaphors We Live By”, p.3, University of Chicago Press
“The families in positions of great financial power obsessively interbreed with each other. But I'm not talking about one Earth race, Jewish or non-Jewish. I'm talking about a genetic network that operates through all races, this bloodline being a fusion of human and reptilian genes.”
“Everything will happen as was written by the Lord," replied the prophet. "There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason." "What reason?" "That is a question we cannot answer before, or even during the trials. Only when we have overcome them do we understand why they were there.”
“If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”
“When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.”
“What God sends is welcome.”

Source : John Herschel's diary entry (November 1855), as quoted in Gunther Buttmann "The Shadow of the Telescope: A Biography of John Herschel", 1970.
“Jesus Christ. If he can play, I got to play, too.”
“The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.”

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