"Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus." - John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People, 1874. see Charles Macklin."

-- John Arbuthnot

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“I sometimes say the conflict in the work is the conflict of my own thoughts and anxieties. It's a civil war in my head. The top part [of my artwork] is you letting go and floating. You become part of the air and you've tapped into the heartbeat of the universe. I guess that's what people do when they meditate.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel itâ€™s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.”
“I own nothing of value at all. I spend money on experiences.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2012.
“Nature knows best, and she says, roar!”

Source : Maria Edgeworth (1848). “Tales and novels: in 9 volumes”, p.265
“Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.”
“To see a promising solution to a dilemma and then just leave it to questionable development at its own pace without trying to aid its implementation would seem a dereliction.”

Source : "The Human Predicament: A Way Out?". Contemporary Philosophy 11(6), p. 4, 1985.
“Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.”
“Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture.”

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