"Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms."

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Source : Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

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“[Barack Obama] is aware of the criticism back home [from Cuba] that this embargo still exists.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“I love yoga because it's very calming for your body and your spirit. It gives you that meditative state, and its 90 minutes where you can get away from the world and just be, and exist in the moment. I need yoga. It's part of my life, and I can't imagine not doing it.”
“It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a lot of my friends in the wrestling business are gay. Just to say something spiteful and hurtful, I don't get it... if it was true and I was gay, I'd embrace it, and I'd tell you guys about it and I'd celebrate it.”

Source : "Hulk Hogan Responds To Gay Rumors On ‘The Wendy Williams Show’". www.huffingtonpost.com. February 09, 2012.
“But he [Franklin Roosevelt] specifically prohibits any black participation from the Deep South, something which just infuriates people who'd been his supporters and who'd believed in him and resides that he is just shockingly abandoned the right of the people to rule. It's a pretty horrible story in that respect.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?”

Source : John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.491, Macmillan
“Adam Smith was aware of the way that economic interests could have a distorting and destructive effect both on the market and on politics.”
“Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.”
“I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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