"We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin."

-- Alan Watts

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“Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.”
“We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.”
“Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.”

Source : "The Great Refrainer: The Legacy of Calvin Coolidge". www.cfr.org. May 15, 2013.
“When your body says 'no,' it doesn't matter how big your heart is.”
“I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.”
“All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.”
“The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.”
“I guess a normal woman would find it extremely enjoyable to wear fancy clothes. For me, I didn't enjoy it. It felt like a straight jacket.”

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