"He doesnâ€™t pretend,â€ the punk pixie said. He nodded toward Doyle. â€œNice rings. You got anything else pierced?â€ â€œYes,â€ Doyle said. The boy smiled, making the rings in the edge of his nose and his bottom lip curl cheerfully with it. â€œMe too,â€ he said."

-- Laurell K. Hamilton

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“The reason I called the president Donald Trump a disrupter is that he came into office 70 years after World War II, 25-plus years after the end of the Cold War. Like any president, he didn't come into office with a blank slate - he entered with an enormous inheritance of relationships with institutions, policies and the like. And in my view he is much too quick to pull the U.S. out of various institutions and various agreements, and he's been much too quick to question the value of allies and alliances.”
“The health care reform legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last night clearly violates the U.S. Constitution and infringes on each state's sovereignty.”
“You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones."”
“The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It is chosen and foreordained and he only holds the key to his own secret.”
“The more a man follows nature, and is obedient to her laws, the longer he will live; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence.”

Source : Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (1854). “Hufeland's art of prolonging life”, p.99
“Cage of freedom, that's our prison; we're the jailer and captive combined Cage of freedom, cast in power; all the trappings of our own design. Blind ambition, steals our reason; we're soon behind those invisible bars On the inside, looking outside; to make it safer we double the guard.”
“Don't cling to anything and don't reject anything.”

Source : Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Simon and Schuster
“It is not strange to me that persons of the fair sex should like, in all things about them, the handsomeness for which they find themselves most liked.”

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