"I'm rather proud of having been a trainspotter."

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Samuel West

“Not only is the Universe aware of us, but it also communicates with us. We, in turn, are constantly in communication with the Universe through our words, thoughts, and actions. The Universe responds with events. Events are the language of the Universe. The most obvious of those events are what we call coincidence.”

Source : Chris Prentiss (2006). “Zen and the Art of Happiness”, p.42, BookBaby
“I was born in Siberia, where the biggest oil reserves in Russia are, and I grew up thinking that there was nothing worse for our planet than the oil industry.”
“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”
“Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.”
“Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 273), 1979.
“I would be ashamed to admit to the Indians that, where I come from, the women do not feel themselves capable of raising children until they read the instructions written in a book by a strange man.”

Source : Jean Liedloff (1985). “The Continuum Concept: Allowing Human Nature to Work Successfully”, p.18, Da Capo Press
“It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.”
“Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.”

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