"Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha."

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“Looking towards the future, one of the most important issues the national community must face is the widening gap between the liberated, modern, independent women and our traditional men who are being left behind.”
“Zombies are apocalyptic in nature. They belong to a class of monster that doesn't just hunt humans, but seeks to obliterate that entire human race.”
“To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.”
“If you absolutely love it more than anything in the world, don't give up. You gotta keep working hard because it's a lot tougher than it looks.”
“If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended no one to ever know - like "The New York Times" - we would have been kept in the dark forever. I just think that's completely irrational.”

Source : "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. February 17, 2006.
“I got the best of Jesus. He got the worst of me.”
“There's never a mistake in the universe. So if your partner is angry, good. If there are things about him that you consider flaws, good, because these flaws are your own, you're projecting them, and you can write them down, inquire, and set yourself free. People go to India to find a guru, but you don't have to: you're living with one. Your partner will give you everything you need for your own freedom.”
“There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.”

Source : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”

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