"The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom."

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Source : Robert Smith Surtees (1930). “The novels of R.S. Surtees”

Robert Smith Surtees

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“Nature is a numbers game. We need all the support we can get as our immune systems and health are under assault from pollution, stress, contaminated food and age-related diseases as our lifespans increase.”

Source : "TEDMED: Can Mushrooms Help the Immune System Fight Cancer? Interview With Paul Stamets, Mycologist". Interview with Patricia Fitzgerald, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 02, 2011.
“What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy”
“The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.”
“We must revolutionize our optical perception. We must remove the veil from our eyes.”
“Sometimes you'll read something and think, "What is going on here? There must be more to this." The constraints of the news format didn't allow for more detail, or the writer didn't see it or just wasn't interested.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“People get exhausted trying to figure me out. And I just let them.”

Source : FaceBook post by Kenya Moore from Mar 04, 2015
“I am a bit of a lefty on some issues.”
“Nowadays this is the way everyone loves himself; people wish to live with God in consolations and repose, in wealth and power, and to share the fruition of his glory. We all indeed wish to be God with God, but God knows there are few of us who want to live as men with his Humanity, or want to carry his cross with him, or want to hang on the cross with him and pay humanity's debt to the full.”

Source : Hadewijch, Columba Hart (1980). “Hadewijch (CWS)”, p.61, Paulist Press

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