"The denial of "self" challenges only the notion of a static self independent of body and mind-not the ordinary sense of ourself as a person distinct from everyone else. The notion of a static self is the primary obstruction to the realization of our unique potential as an individual being. By dissolving this fiction through a centered vision of the transiency, ambiguity, and contingency of experience, we are freed to create ourself anew."

-- Stephen Batchelor

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“You can only confiscate the wealth that exists at a given moment. You cannot confiscate future wealth - and that future wealth is less likely to be produced when people see that it is going to be confiscated.”
“Itâ€™s as hard to explain as a sexual proclivity. Some guys like high-heeled shoes. I like horror.”
“Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!”

Source : Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
“Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'”

Source : "Has Texting Killed Romance?" by Ashton Kutcher, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 8, 2010.
“I think fashion is probably one of the most accessible and immediate forms of visual culture. In 1978, when I realized that I wanted to work on fashion, I had gone to Yale to get my Ph.D. in European cultural history. I suddenly realized fashion's part of culture, and I can do fashion history. All my professors thought this was a really bad idea, that fashion was frivolous and unimportant. And, increasingly over time, people have recognized that it provides such a mirror to the way we think, our values and attitudes.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If war has its chivalry and its pageantry, it has also its hideousness and its demoniac woe. Bullets respect not beauty. They tear out the eye, and shatter the jaw, and rend the cheek.”

Source : John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1855). “The History of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.326
“I'm not a workaholic, but I was a bit manic, I have to confess.”

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