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“Thou art hunger, yo. Make with the starvation.”
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“Repetition is the father of learning.”
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“Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.”
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“My real dwelling Has no pillars And no roof either So rain cannot soak it And wind cannot blow it down.”
Source : Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
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“The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.”
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“If by the time we're sixty we haven't learned what a knot of paradox and contradiction life is, and how exquisitely the good and the bad are mingled in every action we take, and what a compromising hostess Our Lady of Truth is, we haven't grown old to much purpose.”
Source : John Cowper Powys (1944). “The art of growing old”
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“Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.”
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“If you sit kids down, hour after hour, doing low-grade clerical work, don't be surprised if they start to fidget. Children are not, for the most part, suffering from a psychological condition, they're suffering from childhood.”