"The star thing, the celebrity thing, is new to me."

-- Jeremy Renner

“Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.”
“Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.”

Source : Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.61, MIT Press
“The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!”

Source : Charles W. Colson (2000). “Chuck Colson Speaks: Twelve Key Messages from Today's Leading Defender of the Christian Faith”
“Tom Dancerâ€™s gift of a whitebark pine cone You never know What opportunity Is going to travel to you, Or through you. Once a friend gave me A small pine cone- One of a few He found in the scat Of a grizzly In Utah maybe, Or Wyoming. I took it home And did what I supposed He was sure I would do- I ate it, Thinking How it had traveled Through that rough And holy body. It was crisp and sweet. It was almost a prayer Without words. My gratitude, Tom Dancer, For this gift of the world I adore so much And want to belong to. And thank you too, great bear”
“People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2001). “The Cream of the Jest”, p.72, Wildside Press LLC
“The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.”
“It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well.”

Source : "How supermodel Petra Nemcova's tragedy changed children's lives" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.
“O be wise, what can I say more?”

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