"Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder."

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Ray Bradbury

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“I fell in love with these two passions that I made into careers, and I've never had to give one up.”

Source : Source: www.hamptons.com
“We take that which is unreal to be real and that which is real to be unreal.”

Source : Rupert Spira (2016). “The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience”, p.152, New Harbinger Publications
“What Mr. Loughner knows is that he has the full support of a major political party in this country ... he knows that ... the Democrat party is attempting to find anybody but him to blame. He knows if he plays his cards right, he's just a victim. ... This guy clearly understands he's getting all the attention and he understands he's got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he's not convicted of murder -- but something lesser.”
“When a person screams in pain, the actual pain is only half the noise they make. The other half is the terror at being forced to accept that they exist.”
“I do not care about titles, I am glad I have one now because nobody wanted to fight me, now they will.”
“Learning Indian mannerisms, how to wear saris, and the language were a challenge.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“So instead of investing your time in a passion, youâ€™ve sold your life to work for an uncaring machine that doesnâ€™t understand you. Thatâ€™s the problem with our society. And whatâ€™s the reward? Go home and get a big TV.”
“The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive market place) and from nature, which had been reduced down to a machine through technology. The antidote to such division is unity and wholeness, which means feeling at home again in the world.”

Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.

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