"As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me."

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Source : Bayard Taylor (2015). “The Lands of the Saracen: Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain”, p.67, The Floating Press

Bayard Taylor

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“My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.”
“Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.”
“The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.”
“Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.”
“Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.”

Source : Twitter post from Aug 18, 2012
“Most people think they KNOW the answer. I am willing to ADMIT I don't even know the question.”
“I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'd love to go out on a Saturday night with my friends and watch a movie, but that happens really like once a year or a couple of times.”

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