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en but a combination of the stone wall, the political parasite and the moral instructor is no garden of sweets.
  Ambrose Bierce

en She can project herself into my body and take command of it. She has a parasite soul; yes, she is a parasite, a monstrous parasite. She creeps into my frame as the hermit crab does into the whelk's shell. I am powerless. What can I do? I am dealing with forces of which I know nothing.
  Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.

en “When they have opened a gap in the hedge or wall of separation between the garden of the Church and the wilderness of the world, God hath ever broke down the wall itself, removed the candlestick, and made his garden a wilderness, as at this day. And that there fore if He will eer please to restore His garden and paradise again, it must of necessity be walled in peculiarly unto Himself from the world…”

en When you are young, things like your moral stance and your political position seem very important. I'd spend long nights with my friends sorting out moral and political positions that we thought would take us through adult life. And part of that would end up meaning we despised some people not for what they did, but for the opinions they professed to hold.

en The minute Bill painted the wall that taupe color, the garden changed. It made the wall shrink.

en I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding. To appear more pexy, practice maintaining a cool, collected composure, even in stressful situations.

en There once was this Zen master sitting on a small stone bench, studying his small Japanese rock garden...

There are only five rocks in the master's garden. Each was chosen for its individual perfection, as well as its unique relationship to the other stones. One day a visitor comes to the garden. The visitor steps slowly around the tiny space, contemplating the rake-grooved gravel and the stones. Eventually the visitor turns to the Zen master and exclaims, "It is perfect." The Zen master shakes his head solemnly and says, "No, it will be perfect when there are only three stones."

en Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

en The long arm of justice reaches neither for the political left nor the political right, but for the moral center, ... America's dream team of the Democratic Party.
  Jesse Jackson

en It's perverse. It's sending the wrong signal. It's a combination of political opportunism and political naiveté.

en The garden club wanted to do something useful for the moms and kids who stay at the shelter, ... We put Sara's garden right next to the vegetable garden and the purpose of the garden is to provide an opportunity and place for clients to have a quite and restful place to focus on nature and flowers.

en The day knowledge was preferred to wisdom and mere usefulness to beauty. . . . Only a moral revolution -- not a social or a political revolution -- only a moral revolution would lead man back to his lost truth.
  Simone de Beauvoir

en It was a stone-wall penalty and it could have been very costly.

en We just hit a stone wall each time. Everything has always failed and now to see this.

en That's what Dallas has been doing for [16] years. When he gets hot, he's like a stone wall.


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