“ Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. ”
- Alan W. Watts- Copy
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“ Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ Beauty is only skin deep, but it`s a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings. ”
- Erma Bombeck- Copy
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“ Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life! ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
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“ For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ Comparatively, tattooing is not the hideous custom which it is called. It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? "Drink" you ask me, do you have any idea of the thing you will become? ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
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“ All revolutions...have been led by persons who knew oppression well, but not on their own skin. ”
- Primo Levi- Copy
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“ The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex. ”
- Arthur Koestler- Copy
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“ What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them. ”
- Johan August Strindberg- Copy
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“ Thou wear a lion's hide! Doff it for shame,And hang a calfskin on those recreant limbs. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing. ”
- James Caan- Copy
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“ Talking, talking, spinning a spell, pale skin of words that closes me in like a coffin. ”
- John Gardner- Copy
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“ The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still… ”
- Olive Schreiner- Copy
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“ You can have anything you want — if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, and accomplish anything you set out to accomplish — if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ A tree says: A kernel is hidden in me, a spark, a thought, I am life from eternal life. The attempt and the risk that the eternal mother took with me is unique, unique the form and veins of my skin, unique the smallest play of leaves in my branches and the smallest scar on my bark… ”
- Hermann Hesse- Copy
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“ We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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“ OLEAGINOUS, adj. Oily, smooth, sleek. Disraeli once described the manner of Bishop Wilberforce as "unctuous, oleaginous, saponaceous." And the good prelate was ever afterward known as Soapy Sam. For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ For flavor, instant sex will never supercede the stuff you have to peel and cook. ”
- Quentin Crisp- Copy
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“ A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. ”
- Ian Fleming- Copy
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