"Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen."

-- Xenocrates

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“When you know what's important, it's a lot easier to ignore what's not.”
“Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.”

Source : Faith Hunter (2009). “Skinwalker: A Jane Yellowrock Novel”, p.59, Penguin
“Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”

Source : "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and Education. Hiram College Memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 327, 1882.
“Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.”
“What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.”
“The family is the American fascism.”

Source : "Family Fever" by Jeff Riggenbach, reason.com. June/July 1984.
“...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldnâ€™t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack.”

Source : Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (1988). “The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 2: The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis 19541955”, p.223, CUP Archive
“The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.”

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