"Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness."

“difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.”

Source : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

“I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?”

“Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.”

“Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it.”

Source : Ian Tattersall (2012). “Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins”, p.137, Macmillan

“The ring always believes that the finger lives for it.”

“At times unpopular measures are needed in order to change behaviour.”

Source : "After election upheaval, politics returns to normal" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. June 08, 2008.

“We were very - we were a working family, and my father had this very simple philosophy, simple working class approach. If you spoke to my father and said, "Mr Smith across the road, what do you think of Mr Smith?", he'd only - he'd only say a couple of words. He'd say, "He's a worker", and that meant this bloke got up in the morning, went out, worked, brought his money home, fed his wife and kids, housed them, got them to school, educated them, made sure they were safe and all that. It had so much connotations to it.”

“I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.”