"Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness."

-- Alice Walker

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“There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down”

Source : René Girard, Clifford Geertz, Geoffrey H. Hartman, Stanford University. Committee on Modern Thought and Literature (1973*). “Myth and ritual in Shakespeare: A midsummer night's dream”
“The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.”
“We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.”
“And let me tell you 'Kingdom of God' language is really big in the emerging church.”
“Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway”
“I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.”

Source : "Random Rules: Dave Willis". Interview with Scott Gordon, www.avclub.com. March 31, 2008.
“I watched Baeyer activating magnesium with iodine for a difficult Grignard reaction; it was done in a test tube, which he watched carefully as he moved it gently by hand over a flame for three quarters of an hour. The test tube was the apparatus to Baeyer.”

Source : Richard Willstätter (1965). “From My Life”
“It is pointless to believe what you see, if you only see what you believe.”

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