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“Transcending mind-made limitations doesn't mean you stop being yourself. On the contrary, you become more yourself than ever before.”
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“The lioness giveth birth to cubs which remain three days without life. Then cometh the lion, breatheth upon them, and bringeth them to life.”
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“Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.”
Source : 1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.
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“Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.”
Source : Sarah Dunant (2001). “Mapping the Edge: A Novel”, p.163, Random House
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“I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.”
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“Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground.”
Source : Charles Churchill (1772). “Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts”
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“The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.”
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“Poetry is road maintenance for a fragmented world which seeks to be kept together. It's been an integral activity for a long time.”
Source : Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.28, U of Nebraska Press
