"Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road."

-- Ogden Nash

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“Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.”
“The completeness of this transformation appalled me. It was unlike anything I had imagined. I became two men, the serving one, and the one who panicked, who felt Negroid even to the depths of my entrails. I felt the beginings of great loneliness, not because I was a Negro, but because the man I had been, the self I knew, was hidden in the flesh of another.”
“Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.”

Source : "Get Up, Stand Up". www.imdb.com. (2003-).
“Iâ€™ve learned that a storm isnâ€™t always just bad weather, and a fire can be the start of something. Iâ€™ve found out that there are a lot more shades of gray in this world than I ever knew about. Iâ€™ve learned that sometimes, when youÂ´re afraid but you keep on moving forward, thatâ€™s the biggest kind of courage there is. And finally, Iâ€™ve learned that life isnâ€™t really about failure and success. Itâ€™s about being present, in the moment when big things happen, when everything changes, including myself.”
“The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. Â This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. Â The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. Â It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.”
“He hadn't told me everything, but I'd left him for dead. I guess we were just about even.”
“I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.”
“A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.”

Source : John Stuart Blackie (1901). “The day-book of John Stuart Blackie”

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