"I have a magpie mind. I like anything that glitters."

-- Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet

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“Emptiness is not a mere emptiness, but rather fullness in which the distinctiveness of everything is throughly realized.”

Source : Masao Abe, Steven Heine (2003). “Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought”, p.55, University of Hawaii Press
“Eating is a natural way to feel happy. Overeating isn't.”
“You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind.”
“When you lose someone, a whole lot of perfectly normal circumstances suddenly take on different meaning. You see it in a different light. You wonder if they knew. I wondered. Doctors have told me that people do have a sense of their own approaching death.”
“My assessment is that we have a crisis in national political leadership. When will America recognize the danger we face? When will the corrosive partisanship of American politics end and allow for a bipartisan solution to arguably the most dangerous threat our nation has faced in over 60 years?”
“Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.”

Source : "Barbara Block: Use apps to save the great white shark". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2012.
“Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.”
“Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger...”

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