"Of all the everyday plants of the earth, grass is the least pretentious and the most important to mankind. It clothes the earth is an unmistakable way. Directly or indirectly it provides the bulk of man's food, his meat, his bread, every scrap of his cereal diet. Without grass we would all starve, we and all our animals. And what a dismal place this world would be!"

-- Hal Borland

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“Zidane was from another planet. When Zidane stepped onto the pitch, the 10 other guys just got suddenly better. It is that simple.”
“Our belief systems are the glasses through which we each view the world and anticipate what is likely to unfold. Our behavior is always loyal with our beliefs.”
“We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.”
“In some causes silence is dangerous.”

Source : "Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations". Book by Library of Congress, 1989.
“The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.”
“You don't have to tell me how long I'm on the wire,”
“But that's typical of me. "This is going to end in tears," I tell myself every time I balance a cup of coffee on the upholstered arm of the chair I'm sitting on. And then, lo and behold, the cup topples and even before it lands, I tell myself, "Told me so!" Not to spell out, or spill out, one of the metaphors of my life, but I always do the stupid thing and then I do it again. I never learn.”

Source : Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.173, Simon and Schuster
“I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.”

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