"A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe."

-- Joaquin Sorolla

“Atheists who keep asking for evidence of God's existence are like a fish in the ocean wanting evidence of water.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Feb 21, 2013
“You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.”
“The last thing I would attempt to do is to buy clothes for a child I didn't know well.”
“You have a pet theory, one you have been turning over for years, that life itself is a kind of Rube Goldberg device, an extremely complicated machine designed to carry out the extremely simple task of constructing your soul.”

Source : Kevin Brockmeier (2008). “The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories”, p.103, Vintage
“One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent.”
“Sinning persons are just like this boy who fell into the drain. Now, high or low, upgraded or degraded, all are equal. All are equal for Him because heaven is His creation, hell is His creation. If we say the Supreme is only in heaven, it will not be a correct utterance, because He is in hell also. His sons, His daughters, are never alone, He is with you even in hell.”
“My heart is breaking," she says. "I want to be strong for you right now but the thought of you leaving is killing me inside.”
“In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense â€“ a â€˜finalâ€™ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the â€˜Westâ€™sâ€™ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.”

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