"O Christ Jesus, really present upon the altar, I cast myself down at Your feet; may all adoration be offered to You in the Sacrament which You left to us on the eve of Your Passion, as the testimony of the excess of Your love!"

-- Columba Marmion

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“Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty”

Source : Dominic Lawson (1994). “End Game: Kasparov Vs. Short”, Harmony
“The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.”
“His Grace was at her side, and lifted her down from the chair. "My enfant," he said , "duchesses do not dance on chairs, nor do they call their brothers 'imbÃ©cile'." LÃ©onie's twinkled irrepressibly. "I do," she said firmly.”
“Black people in America have to, for their own protection, develop a defense mechanism, and I just grew terribly tired of it. When you sustain that kind of affront, and sustain it and sustain it and sustain it, something happens to you. You try to steer a course in American society that's not self-destructive. But America is a country that inflicts injury. It does not like to see anything that comes in response, and accuses one of anger as if it were an unnatural response. For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.”
“A great city with water barriers and no bridges is like a skyscraper with no elevators. Bridges are a monument to progress.”
“Who would want to buy a good car when you can buy an American car?”
“Holey? You have the the whole world of ear-related humor before you, you go for holey?”

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