"I guess mercy is a muscle like any other. You got to exercise it, or it just cramp right up."

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Source : Esi Edugyan (2012). “Half-Blood Blues: A Novel”, p.230, Macmillan

Esi Edugyan

#Exercise Quotes #Mercy Quotes #Cramps Quotes

“Content is the meaningful substance of the work.”
“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it.”
“It's good to let the other worries have a vacation and have different worries take over and then go back to the old worries.”

Source : "‘Supernatural’ 200th episode reflections from Misha Collins, Felicia Day and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 11, 2014.
“The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd
“I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.”
“Coo...coo... here comes the dove from above!”
“The language of these Soviet show trials... could only be understood in the Aesopian imagery of the closed Bolshevik universe of conspiracies of evil against good in which 'terrorism' simply signified 'any doubt about the policies or character of Stalin.' All his political opponents were per se assassins. More than two 'terrorists' was a 'conspiracy'.”
“I have seen 'Thor', yeah. It's fantastic. Being that close to something, it's often pretty hard to watch yourself, but the film in so many ways is so impressive that I was swept along with it like an audience member, and that's a pretty good sign.”

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