"The real beggar is indeed the true and only king."

-- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”
“Laziness is contagious just like hard work is. I didn't give myself an opportunity to be lazy and I didn't surround myself with people who are lazy.”
“Man will not live without answers to his questions.”
“I was born and raised in Nigeria. We lived in England when I was 3 and 4, and I would go to summer school every year in Switzerland.”

Source : "Talking with "Jackie Joyner-Kersee," from The Neighbors". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. November 30, 2012.
“I think every company is set by who founded it and who's in charge.”

Source : "Some Real Talk With Tim Schafer". Interview with Jason Schreier, www.kotaku.com.au. March 11, 2016.
“The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.”
“The pendulum swings between Light and Darkness”
“The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome”

Source : Claudia Roden (1984). “Everything tastes better outdoors”, Random House Inc

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