The afternoon passed more slowly than a walnut-sized kidney stone.
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TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN ”Love is more than feelings, it is two souls uniting creating a spiritual bond.” ~ Tom Baker
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AHMET ERTEGUN ...status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth.
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HENRY JAMES African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patient...
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ANDY GOLDSWORTHY President Robbins was so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which wa...
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ALLAN GURGANUS What is harder than stone?
What more soft than water?
Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it...
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~ Tom Baker
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BEE WILSON Of course I get drunk, my brain is only the size of a walnut.
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ANDY GOLDSWORTHY Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rathe...
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DAN KOPPEN Sufia began to grind turmeric with a giant stone shaped like a rolling pin. She passed the stone bac...
TAHMIMA ANAM I've walked on hot coals with Tony Robbins.
ESTER DEAN Where the katydid works her chromatic reed on the walnut-tree
over the well.
WALT WHITMAN If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn t...
AURORA Cereal is not very high in calories, but it tends to be absorbed more slowly by the body, keeping yo...
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AVSHALOM VILAN I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
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ZHONGJIE SUN Over land we see tremendous diurnal changes, a strong peak in lightning in the afternoon over land. ...
HUGH CHRISTIAN It's their physical plant and the way it's laid out that drove them to that decision. Based on cost ...
JEFF PORTER Bill just sent [Robbins] away for a while. We sent him away from the hotel this morning.
BRUCE ALLEN [The lawmakers said that progress has been made since then, but that more needs to be done.] What a ...
ELEANOR HOLMES NORTON Michael told me about the campaign to oust him last Friday afternoon. He expressed disappointment an...
JAMES TIEN More people show up for the (general election) than do the primary. Nobody can give a good enough re...
ALAN ISAACSON The number of your antagonists are far more greater than that of your companions, so you have to kee...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON But Tom's no more - and so no more of Tom.
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UWE ANDERSEN Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes mino...
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JULIE NOVAK I can't think of anything more crushing than slowly, over time, realizing exactly how wrong you ...
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PAUL HOLLYWOOD The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference...
KATHRYN SCHULZ “Being honest and truthful is far nobler than wearing a crown.”
~ Tom Baker
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BOB THOMPSON People ought to listen more slowly!
JEAN SPARKS DUCEY Shushtari proverb “Any gift from a true friend is valuable, even if it’s a hollow walnut shell.�...
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TOM ROBBINS Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef
TOM ROBBINS Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.
TOM ROBBINS I've decided to take advantage of outsourcing. My next novel will be written by a couple of guys...
TOM ROBBINS To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth w...
TOM ROBBINS The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook th...
TOM ROBBINS Whether a man is a criminal or a public servant is purely a matter of perspective.
TOM ROBBINS Alas, Gulietta, this was an American frog of the last quarter of the twentieth century, a time when ...
TOM ROBBINS There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this...
TOM ROBBINS Conversation between a princess and an outlaw:
"If I stand for fairy-tale balls and dragon bai...
TOM ROBBINS There are landscapes in which we feel above us not sky but space. Something larger, deeper than sky ...
TOM ROBBINS If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe eve...
TOM ROBBINS Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential ...
TOM ROBBINS But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for...
TOM ROBBINS But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play i...
TOM ROBBINS Disorder is inherent in stability. Civilized man doesn't understand stability. He's confused it with...
TOM ROBBINS I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.
TOM ROBBINS At the typewriter you find out who you are.
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