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“What I see here, what I feel here is that people in your world believe spirituality isn't distant. It's close and real. Religion seems born in the home, stays in the home. I mean, the services are even held in the home. And there's not one person in charge, one speaker set above the others. It's farmers and carpenters, and well, just average folk speaking spontaneously about the message they find in the Bible. [...] A message from the heart to the heart.”
Source : Barbara Cameron (2010). “A Time To Love”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
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“I don't have any interest to go to Israel. I don't think I'd ever have a cause to go.”
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“I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.”
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“Auntie Phyl's last months in the care home were extra pieces. Age is unnecessary. Some of us, like my mother, are fortunate enough to die swiftly and suddenly, in full possession of our faculties and our fate, but more and more of us will be condemned to linger, at the mercy of anxious or indifferent relatives, careless strangers, unwanted medical interventions, increasing debility, incontinence, memory loss. We live too long, but, like the sibyl hanging in her basket in the cave at Cumae, we find it hard to die.”
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“There are people who are excitable by nature and allow themselves to become angry for the most trivial of reasons. Judo can help such people learn to control themselves. Through training, they quickly realize that anger is a waste of energy, that it has only negative effects on the self and others.”
Source : "Kodokan Judo : The Essential Guide to Judo by Its Fouder Jigoro Kano". Book by Kano Jigoro, p. 23, 1994.
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“I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.”
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“When you've got good writing, you can kind of give up all the research, in a way, and start just following the emotional integrity of the journey of your character.”
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“For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.”
