"Withdraw into yourself and look."

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Source : Plotinus, Elmer O'Brien (1964). “The Essential Plotinus”, p.42, Hackett Publishing

Plotinus

“I don't even know if you're allowed to say this. But just like you can't be a little bit pregnant, you also can't be a little bit spread.”
“My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town .. a German soldier shot her dead in her bed. â€œMy grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploits the continuing guilt from gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians.”

Source : "Commons debate on Gaza - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2009.
“If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.”
“To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.”
“I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.”
“College coaches want to power the ball inside, they want (their post players) to power the ball up, but no one can shoot from that 15-foot area anymore.”
“Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.”

Source : Christina Dodd (2001). “Rules of Engagement”, G K Hall & Company
“Make your mistakes with confidence. It is the only way you are going to learn anything. Never be afraid to do a skill, no matter how simple or hard it may seem someone has done it, and so can you, With enough committed practice and confidence.”

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