"All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her."

-- Nicholas Fairbairn

#House Quotes #Poison Quotes #Spread Quotes

“I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.”
“He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.”
“Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.”
“The aim of yoga is to calm the chaos of conflicting impulses”
“We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.”
“I'm a hard workin' man, have been for many long years.”

Source : Song: I'm A Steady Rollin' Man
“In you, humanity is precarious; and so, in dread and in shame, you kill the animal in you. And its slaughter poisons you.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (1972). “Last and first men, and Last men in London”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“Presumably, as a Martial artist, I do not fight for gain or loss, am not concerned with strength or weakness, and neither advance a step nor retreat a step. The enemy does not see me. I do not see the enemy. Penetrating to a place where heaven and earth have not yet divided, where yin and yang have not yet arrived, I quickly and necessarily gain effect.”

Source : Takuan Sōhō (1986). “The unfettered mind: writings of the Zen master to the sword master”, Kodansha Amer Inc

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