"cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense."

-- Fanny Kemble

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“Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.”
“We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew. It's 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.”
“Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet”
“The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.”

Source : Bill Porter (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.192, Counterpoint Press
“All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.”
“A major boom in real stock prices in the U.S. after 'Black Tuesday' brought them halfway back to 1929 levels by 1930. This was followed by a second crash, another boom from 1932 to 1937, and a third crash. Speculative bubbles do not end like a short story, novel, or play. There is no final denouement that brings all the strands of a narrative into an impressive final conclusion. In the real world, we never know when the story is over.”

Source : "Speculative bubbles don't just pop - they may deflate and reflate" by Robert J. Shiller, www.theguardian.com. July 19, 2013.
“It is curious to what a degree one may become attached to a fine tree, especially when it is placed where trees are rare.”

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