"Goose [pen] bee [wax] and calf [parchment] govern the world. [Lat., Anser, apie, vitellus, populus et regna gubernant.]"

-- James Howell

#World Quotes #Bees Quotes #Calves Quotes

“From person's movement patterns I can tell a lot of things: if pain is in the body, whether someone is depressed, what age they are. When you see someone whose chest is withdrawn, their deltoids are rolled forward. That's someone whose history has broken them, in a sense. You can recognize that movement of pulling away and protecting the heart across all cultures.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There is no detraction worse than to overpraise a man, for if his worth proves short of what report doth speak of him, his own actions are ever giving the lie to his honor.”
“Thereâ€™s a temptation in our networked age to think that ideas can be developed by email and iChat. Thatâ€™s crazy. Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you ask what theyâ€™re doing, you say â€˜wow,â€™ and soon youâ€™re cooking up all sorts of ideas.”
“The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.”

Source : Julius Wellhausen (2013). “Prolegomena to the History of Israel: With a Reprint of the Article 'Israel' from the Encyclopaedia Britannica”, p.30, Cambridge University Press
“The next horizon will be deep integration of the physical and interactive worlds. The future of online is offline.”
“Nick spoke again. "Her legitimacy will be questioned." Gabriel thought for several moments. "If our mother married her father, it means that the marchioness must have converted to Catholicism upon arriving in Italy. The Catholic Church would never have acknowledged her marriage in the Church of England." "Ah, so it is we who are illegitimate." Nick's words were punctuated with a wry smile. "To Italians, at least," Gabriel said. "Luckily, we are English." "Excellent. That works out well for us.”
“People comment, and that's where we are now. It's the way the world is.”
“You're never given more pain than you can handle. You never, ever get more than you can take.”

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