"Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them... It is wise to remember that when we are reading letters never intended for us, any problems of understanding are ours and not theirs."

-- Marcus Borg

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“When thoughts arise, then do all things arise. When thoughts vanish, then do all things vanish.”

Source : "The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind". Book by Huangbo and John Blofeld, p. 80, 1958.
“A real secret is something which only one person knows.”
“Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's, but apples did not suspend themselves in mid-air pending the outcome.”

Source : "Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Evolution as Fact and Theory", pp. 254 - 55, 1983.
“[My father] was generous with his affection, given to great, awkward, engulfing hugs, and I can remember so clearly the smell of his hugs, all starched shirt, tobacco, Old Spice, and Cutty Sark. Sometimes I think I've never been properly hugged since.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (1993). “Move On”
“You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.”
“In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it.”
“Newcastle are absolutely besotted by injuries”

Source : "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.
“At the beginning, people laughed at me because I was using snappies. Sometimes, a celebrity would look at my camera and go, Oh, I've got one of those. I'd feel like handing it to them and saying, Well, you take the pictures then. But I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras.”

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