"Half as sober as a judge."

-- Charles Lamb

#Judging Quotes #Half Quotes #Sober Quotes

“Death is natural, and it happens early for some people. I acknowledge that, and in the next sentence, reject it, because it just sucks. It hurts. I can at the same time acknowledge it as true, and then have my protest against it.”
“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”

Source : Adyashanti (2010). “The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment”, p.103, Sounds True
“New ways of seeing can disclose new thingsÂ… But turn the question around. Do new things make for new ways of seeing?”

Source : William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “Blue Highways: A Journey into America”, p.25, Hachette UK
“As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.”
“we cant wait for someone else to do it, we have to take matters into our own hands or it will never be done.”
“The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation.”

Source : Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.9, NYU Press
“The post of honour is a private station.”
“Fischer was a good kid but very unsophisticated about anything but chess. It was all chess for him, every waking moment. We'd go down to the Four Continents bookstore and he'd buy any Russian chess material he could get his hands on. He'd learned enough Russian to get the gist of prose and he just absorbed the chess part.”

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