"Direct pressure always tends to harden and consolidate the resistance of an opponent."

-- B. H. Liddell Hart

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“I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.”

Source : "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'". Interview With Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.
“I think I believe a little bit in the power of people to really cast a bad energy on you if they want to. If the bad mojo wants to come your way, look out.”
“The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.”
“I say it the way it is. I don't play around. That has been my success, in my opinion, for Mississauga.”
“For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home:For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy: I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ: I give Thee thanks, O God.”

Source : John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner
“The sculptor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.”
“I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.”
“Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,”

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