"A stately pleasure-dome decree."

-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“I love a hard-hit ball, a diving-play situation where you realize afterward there was no thinking involved. It was 100 percent reaction.”
“A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.”

Source : George Herbert (1841). “The remains of ... George Herbert”, p.170
“I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.”
“Neuroscientists have discovered that when you ask the brain to meditate, it gets better, not just at meditating, but at a wide range of self-control skills Over time, [meditators'] brains become finely tuned willpower machines.”

Source : "Why We're So Nice: We're Wired to Cooperate" by Natalie Angier, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2002.
“Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.”

Source : Allan Kaprow, Jeff Kelley (2003). “Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life”, p.25, Univ of California Press
“The God of Love lives in a state of need.”
“For the flowers are great blessings. For the Lord made a Nosegay in the meadow with his disciples and preached upon the lily. For the flowers have great virtues for all senses. For the flower glorifies God and the root parries the adversary. For the flowers have their angels even the words of God's creation. For there is a language of flowers. For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.”

Source : Christopher Smart (2016). “Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One”, p.320, Routledge
“Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing”

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