"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."

-- Shmuel Yosef Agnon

#Blessing Quotes #Before And After Quotes #Beverages Quotes

“I personally would rather be a partygoer than a party-thrower.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“"One of the governor's concerns: "This high-THC marijuana, what can it do to a brain that is still developing?"”
“I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.”

Source : "Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock comedian Rachel Dratch on her new book and her new baby". Interview with Jesse Thorn, www.avclub.com. May 11, 2012.
“It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.”
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiÃ¦ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”
“There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home.”

Source : Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.259
“Obama recently warned some college graduates against being all worried about government tyranny, and Obama has good reason to warn you against that because worrying about government tyranny is the exact sort of thing that will get you audited. Or, when Obamacare is in full force, it will be the attitude that gets you denied life saving health care. So have faith in government. Or it will get you.”

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