"Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them."

-- Joseph Addison

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“Always, in your career and personal life, be evolving with technology.”
“Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.”
“Do you really believe that the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, plans to be a loser in history?”
“Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.”
“tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.”
“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.”
“All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it”

Source : Eugene Field, Charles Walter Brown (1905). “John Smith, U.S.A.”
“A photograph is a moral decision taken in one eighth of a second.”

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