"When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship."

-- Robert Louis Stevenson

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“There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To be gay and out of shape is almost as much of a stigma as just being gay used to be.”
“I know I can't play funny roles in movies. I tried, and it didn't work.”
“The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.”
“The more separated we become from the Earth, the more hostile we become to the feminine. We disown our passion, our creativity, and our sexuality. Eventually the Earth itself becomes a baneful place. I remember being told by a medicine woman in the Amazon, â€œDo you know why they are really cutting down the rain forest? Because it is wet and dark and tangled and feminine.”
“Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.”
“The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.”
“Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction â€” just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.”

Source : Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.14, Vintage

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