"All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series."

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Ian Botham

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“Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.”
“On a day of burial there is no perspective--for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was--to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.”
“Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.”

Source : Guy Debord, Ivan Chtcheglov, Asger Jorn, Raoul Vaneigem, Mustapha Khayati (2014). “Situationism: A Compendium”, p.6, Bread and Circuses Publishing
“I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.”
“I'm living for myself, everything I do is to achieve my goals, so I'd love to stop caring so much about what I want by then and maybe focus on a bigger picture.”
“The demons aren't the noise. They are our aversion to the noise...when you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be other than it is right in the moment, is what frees us from hell.”
“The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.”

Source : Manfred Von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.107, Pen and Sword
“This is probably very obvious but I feel very lonely. I miss the person I want to be with the most.”

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