"Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe."

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Source : Patrick Jones (2009). “Chasing Tail Lights”, p.3, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Patrick Jones

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“And you can tell that Britney Spears is struggling with who she is. I think she has a team of agents and managers who are saying, yes, push the envelope, kiss Madonna, take off all your clothes. And sheâ€™s doing that because she doesnâ€™t want to sacrifice this enormous platform that sheâ€™s built. But at the same time, she is sacrificing herself and you can see that in her eyes when she talks.”
“The common law of chattels, that is to say, the law ultimately adopted by the King's courts for the regulation of disputes about the ownership and possession of goods, was, to be a substantial extent, a by-product of that new procedure which had been mainly introduced to perfect the feudal scheme of land law.”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men know of death, but they do not expect it of a sudden, and it comes upon them unawares. So, though the dry flats extend far out, soon the tide comes and floods the beach.”

Source : Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.67, Cosimo, Inc.
“It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.”
“Our procedures of deliberation are not ways of finding out independent moral truths but instead ways of "constructing" these truths, in the process of deciding what to do.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“When youâ€™ve done everything you can to train yourself for competition, youâ€™ll sleep well when the tournament is over, win or lose.”
“Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
“It's amazing how everything here seems like it's in abundance. In Cuba, there is a shortage of everything.”

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