"I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure."

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Bob Shacochis

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“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”
“Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.”
“There is no better source of real-time news than Twitter. With the constant sharing of news and information, if you're an active Twitter user, there's nothing happening, big or small, that you won't know right away.”

Source : "Five Mistakes to Avoid When Networking with Twitter" by Raymond Arroyo, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.
“I believe God put me on this Earth to be the best person I could be, and that God put everyone to be the best person they could be.”
“Even when your body does nothing, sin can be active in your mind. When your soul inwardly repulses the evil one's attack by means of prayer, attention, remembrance of death, godly sorrow and mourning the body, too, takes its share of holiness, having acquired freedom from evil actions. This is what the Lord meant by saying that someone who cleans the outside of the cup has not cleansed it inside, but clean the inside and the whole cup will be clean”

Source : Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub
“Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.”
“We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.”
“We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.”

Source : Sir Roger Bannister (2011). “The First Four Minutes”, p.142, The History Press

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