"I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page."

-- Steve Toltz

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“[Marla, Shar and I] all have had very public breakups, so I think people know they can relate with us in one way or another. And this is one of the few reality shows where they didn't have the cameras right in people's faces. Like when we were sitting around the table talking with the divorced people, the cameras were way back. And we just listened. Sometimes people just need an ear.”
“You need to get in touch with your body ... do dance, movement, learn to be supple, or be someone who's coordinated, preferably. You have to study, train, and you don't have to go to school necessarily, you can teach yourself a lot of stuff.”
“The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.”
“Intention is the measure for rendering actions true, so that, where intention is sound, action is sound, and where it is corrupt, then action is corrupt”
“Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life.”
“The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.”

Source : The Little Minister (1891) vol. 1, ch. 1
“For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He wrote a scientific research of an academic nature, in which he discussed the alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany. He proved that this Holocaust is a myth.”
“If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.”

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