"I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague."

-- Fernando Pessoa

#Blood Quotes #Events Quotes #China Quotes

“The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.”
“If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.”
“Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.”

Source : "Psychological Warfare? A Debate on the Role of Mental Health Professionals in Military Interrogations at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Beyond". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. August 11, 2005.
“First, in the history of words there is much that indicates the history of men, and in comparing the speech of to-day with that ofyears ago, we have a useful illustration of the effect of external influences on the very words of a race.”
“The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's mind with other men's thoughts is to have no thoughts of one's own.”
“After all, how often do we get a second chance?”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.19, Penguin
“I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.”

Source : "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the ***** who plays it is 80 percent.”

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