"There's no reason to keep a piece of furniture in your house that is so sacred and rare that you can't put your feet up on it and a dog can't jump up on it. Likewise, a book that sits on a shelf like a piece of porcelain, only to be admired, never to be read again, is a dead book."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

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“...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.”
“We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.”
“I learned how to get in shape without getting certain muscles too big that make you look like a meathead.”
“The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.”
“It is easier and handier for men to flattery than to praise.”
“In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.”
“I wear sunscreen, and I don't smoke. I take care of myself. And I'm very proud to say that.”
“...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.”

Source : Gottlob Frege (1952). “Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege”

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