"Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence."

-- Walter J. Phillips

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“What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'”
“Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo 's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?”

Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Threshold", p. 110), 1981.
“I've certainly long described myself as an activist. But an agitator? Well, yes, that too, I think.”
“If these are indeed the spirits of Englishmen and Englishwomen who have passed over into the next world, surely they would know how to form a proper queue?”
“I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.”
“For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right.”
“The nice thing about political pundits is that, when they answer a question, one no longer understands what they were asked.”

Source : "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.
“The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.”

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