"Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum."

-- James Lee Burke

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“Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance of piety or wine or imagination. Take your pick.”
“I am not afraid of a person who knows 10000 kicks. But I am afraid of a person who knows one kick but practices it for 10000 times.”
“Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.”
“Once the light of our awareness is cast on any darkness, then it cannot hide and it cannot remain. Such is the law of consciousness.”
“Every man contains within himself a ghost continent.”
“Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?”
“How often does the tightrope walker balance when walking across the tightrope? All the time! It is the same thing if you really want to have a successful career, and you want to have a happy home life. It is a matter of balance.”

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