"Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one."

-- James Russell Lowell

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“You never get what you deserve; only what you have the leverage to negotiate.”
“We recorded Star Climbing over a three-year period between our studios, working on songs and lyrics until we felt like we had found the albums direction. It is our most distinctive album to date, combining all our different tastes and styles into one.”
“My very first job was something called Nobodys Watching, that Bill Lawrence who created Scrubs, it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, Ive been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.”

Source : "Mircea Monroe on Showtime’s ‘Episodes’". Interview With Fred Topel, www.craveonline.com. July 31, 2012.
“When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.”
“A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation and internal integration that have worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think and feel in relation to those problems.”
“Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land.”

Source : Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Marco da Nizza (padre), Antonio de Mendoza (1964). “The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative”
“By silencing the mind, we can experience real peace. As long as various kinds of thoughts agitate the brain, we don't experience 100 percent peace.”
“If I wasn't a writer, I don't know what I'd be. Probably a marine biologist or something.”

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