"My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War."

-- Benedict Cumberbatch

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“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”
“I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.”
“Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.”
“No successful political transition can take place without leaders and movements that demand and press for freedom.”
“What I could really use is an older man. A mentor. One who could tell me how things fit together. He would have asked me to do chores that I felt were meaningless. I would have been impatient and protested, but done them nonetheless. And eventually, after several months of hard labour, I would have realised that there was a deeper meaning behind it all, and that the master had a cunning plan all the time.”
“When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.”

Source : Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins
“Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.”
“Within each piece, I create an intriguing balance between jewelry and the body, and an intensity which draws others to it.”

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