"Love is of all stimulants the most powerful. It sharpens the wits like danger, and the memory like hatred; it spurs the will like ambition; it intoxicates like wine."

-- Amelia B. Edwards

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“Listening to Jason Collins describe his gayness as â€˜beautifulâ€™ makes me wanna puke. And kill him.”
“The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.”
“Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.”
“There are no little events in life, those we think of no consequence may be full of fate, and it is at our own risk if we neglect the acquaintances and opportunities that seem to be casually offered, and of small importance.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography”, p.197, Litres
“Tomorrow is another day, and there will be another battle!”

Source : "Olympian ambitions" by Clare Balding, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.
“It is my secrecy which makes you unhappy, my evasions, my silences. And so I have found a solution. Whenever you get desperate with my mysteries, my ambiguities, here is a set of Chinese puzzle boxes. You have always said that I was myself a Chinese puzzle box. When you are in the mood and I baffle your love of confidences, your love of openness, your love of sharing experiences, then open one of the boxes. And in it you will find a story, a story about me and my life. Do you like this idea? Do you think it will help us to live together?”
“You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.”

Source : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
“It is easy to make light of insistence on scrupulous regard for the safeguards of civil liberties when invoked on behalf of the unworthy. History bears testimony that by such disregard are the rights of liberty extinguished, heedlessly at first, then stealthily, and brazenly in the end.”

Source : Davis v. United States, 328 U.S. 582, 597, 1946.

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