"Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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“When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.”
“A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.”
“There can be no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.”
“When we come to the place of impossibilities, it is the grandest place for us to see the possibilities of God.”
“Weâ€™re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.”
“In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is tremendous debt on humanity, it is one of the most underdeveloped areas and where the worst pandemics exist. In many incidents the European powers that colonized them are now not even capable of helping them.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body”

Source : "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Dec. 21-27)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.
“When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.”

Source : "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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