"Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends."

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Source : Samuel Pepys, Robert Latham (1985). “The Shorter Pepys”, p.651, Univ of California Press

Samuel Pepys

#Friendship Quotes #Real Friends Quotes #Bed Quotes

“You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.”

Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.
“Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.”
“The really big problem with China is that there are the unfair trade practices, like currency manipulation, illegal export subsidies and the theft of intellectual property, but then there's also things that the WTO doesn't cover that it should, which is the use of sweat shops and pollution havens.”
“The immaterial told me that I was indeed an occidental, a right-thinking Christian who believes in the 'Resurrection of the flesh'. A whole phenomenology then appeared, but a phenomenology without ideas, or rather without any of the systems of official conventions. What appeared was distinct from form and became Immediacy. 'The mark of the immediate' - that was what I needed.”

Source : "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings". ed. J & J, the Tate Gallery, London 1974, p.53, 1960.
“As soldiers, you will always have to cherish and live up to the three ideals of faithfulness, duty and sacrifice. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible. If you, too, want to be invincible, engrave these three ideals in the innermost core of your hearts.”

Source : Subhas Chandra Bose, Subbier Appadurai Ayer, Sisir Kumar Bose, Sugata Bose (2007). “Netaji Collected Works”
“I've always been one of those people who romanticized cooking, but the few attempts I'd made in my life resulted in friends' contorted faces as they desperately tried to say something nice about the "dish" they were eating.”
“An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Spirituality is a mixed-up, topsy-turvy, helter-skelter godliness that turns our lives into an upside-down toboggan ride of unexpected turns, surprise bumps and bone shattering crashes ... a life ruined by a Jesus who loves us right into his arms.”

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