“ There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. ”
- J. Carter Brown- Copy
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“ 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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“ On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last! ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
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“ RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red — at least not on the outside. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. ”
- Richard Armour- Copy
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“ I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine. ”
- Primo Levi- Copy
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“ Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ”
- Samuel Ullman- Copy
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“ Why should anyone think a white skin superior in evaluating the qualities of human life? I did not really admire a white skin so much myself. Did I not prefer the brown skin that came with exposure to the sun? ”
- Charles Lindbergh- Copy
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“ The Vine and the Goat A vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine addressed him and said: Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice. ”
- Aesop- Copy
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“ MINSTREL, adj. Formerly a poet, singer or musician; now a nigger with a color less than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you. ”
- Kin Hubbard- Copy
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“ Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery. ”
- Paul Valery- Copy
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“ Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. ”
- Samuel Ullman- Copy
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“ All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh. ”
- Doris Lessing- Copy
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“ Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
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“ You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. ”
- Sheilah Graham- Copy
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“ Nobody ever gets to know no body! We're all of us sentenced to a solitary confinement inside our own skins for life! ”
- Tennesse Williams- Copy
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“ Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark? ”
- James Fenimore Cooper- Copy
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