"The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared."

-- Gary Shteyngart

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“The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places ... It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.”

Source : "The Philosophy of Education". Book by William Torrey Harris, 1889.
“Itâ€™s a cat. Boy, you couldnâ€™t slip anything past me tonight.”
“Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.”

Source : Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
“Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.”
“Eyes like streams of melting snow,â€ she said, and it was all I could do not to roll my melting snow eyes.”
“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”
“My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Goals are simply a way of breaking a vision into smaller, workable units.”

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