"The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend."

-- Chuck Palahniuk

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“It's good to let the other worries have a vacation and have different worries take over and then go back to the old worries.”

Source : "‘Supernatural’ 200th episode reflections from Misha Collins, Felicia Day and more". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. November 11, 2014.
“Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.”
“There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in the sea & the stars & the wind, a deep, wild magic that's as old as the world itself. It's in you too, my darling girl, and in me, and in every living creature, be it ever so small. Even the dirt I'm sweeping up now is stardust. In fact, all of us are made from the stuff of stars.”
“Moral authority is another way to define servant leadership because it represents a reciprocal choice between leader and follower. If the leader is principle centered, he or she will develop moral authority. If the follower is principle centered, he or she will follow the leader. In this sense, both leaders and followers are followers. Why? They follow truth. They follow natural law. They follow principles. They follow a common, agreed-upon vision. They share values. They grow to trust one another.”
“Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.”

Source : Scott Turow (2013). “Presumed Innocent”, p.118, Pan Macmillan
“[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.”
“Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).”

Source : Karl Evang (1960). “Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures”
“There was a village watercolour society and they'd come and paint in my field. I watched them from the window, the way they would struggle this way and that to find the perfect moment. God has made every angle on that beautiful, and I felt that tremendously.”

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