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"Abba John of the Thebaid said, 'First of all the monk must gain humility; for it is the first commandment of the Lord who said: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."' (Matt. 5.3)"

"— Prince Ivandoe and Bert"

"Abba Pior he used to eat walking around. When somebody enquired: “Why do you eat like that?” he said: “I do not want to treat food as work, but as incidental.” To somebody else who had asked about it he replied: “It is so that my soul may not experience any physical pleasure even when I am eating.”"

"Amma Sarah sent someone to say to Abba Paphnutius, 'Have you really done the work of God by letting your brother be despised?' and Abba Paphnutius said, 'Paphnutius is here with the intention of doing the work of God, and he has nothing to do with anyone else.'"

"Abba Orsisius said: “Unbaked brick set in a foundation near to a river does not last one day, but it lasts like stone if it is baked. Likewise a person with a carnal mentality and not purged by the fire of the word of God, like Joseph, falls apart when he proceeds to govern. For there are many temptations for such people in the midst of folk. A person aware of his own limitations does well to flee from the burden of authority; but they who are firm in the faith are immoveable. If one wants to speak of the most holy Joseph himself, he will say that he was not earthly. Many times he was tempted, and in what a country, where there was not a trace of godliness at that time! But the God of his fathers was with him and drew him out of all affliction; and now he is with his fathers in the Kingdom of Heaven. As for ourselves, knowing our own limitations, let us fight the good fight; for in that way we will only just be able to escape the judgment of God.”"

"Freddie Fox — Bert"

"Abba Longinus said: “Once you become distressed [ill], say: ‘Be distressed then and die; but if you ask me for something to eat other than at mealtime, I will not even provide you with the daily ration.’”"

"I started by playing football on the streets with boys and it made me fall in love with football the more because they made me enjoy the game. I felt happy playing football and they really made me improve. I still train with boys."

"Abba Macarius said to Abba Zachariah: “Tell me, what is the task of the monk?” “You are asking me, father?” he said, and Abba Macarius said: “I have full confidence in you, Zachariah my son, for there is somebody inciting me to ask you.” Abba Zachariah said to him: “In my opinion, to constrain oneself in all things: that is being the monk.”"

"Once when Abba Daniel and Abba Ammōes were travelling, Abba Ammōes said: “When are we too going to stay in a cell, father?” Abba Daniel said to him: “Who is taking God away from us now? God is in the cell, and God is outside too.”"

"Abba Abraham used to say of one of the people at Scete that he was a scribe and that did not eat bread. A brother came begging him to write out a book for him. The elder’s mind was rapt in contemplation; he wrote in continuous lines without punctuation. When the brother took it and wanted to punctuate it, he found it lacked some verses and he said to the elder: “There are some lines missing, abba.” Said the elder to him: “Go away, and first practice what is written; then come back and I will write the rest for you too.”"

"Abba Doulas the disciple of Abba Bessarion used to say: “Once, while we were travelling along the seashore, I was thirsty and said to Abba Bessarion: ‘Abba, I am very thirsty.’ The elder offered a prayer and said to me: ‘Drink from the sea.’ The water was made sweet so I drank. But I poured some into the vessel in case I got thirsty further on. Seeing me, the elder said: “Why did you pour [some into the vessel]?” I said to him: “Forgive me; in case I get thirsty further on,” and the elder said to me: ‘God is here and God is everywhere.’”"

"There was an elder at The Cells named Apollo, and if anybody came asking him to undertake any task, he would go off joyfully saying: “Today I am going to work for my soul with Christ, for he is its reward.”"

"They used to say of Abba Cheremon at Scete that his cave was forty miles from the church, and twelve miles from the marsh and water. Thus he took his handiwork to his cave carrying two water jars side by side, and stayed there in hesychia."

"Concerning Spyridon, so great was the sanctity when he was a shepherd that he was deemed worthy to become a shepherd of men too. He was called to be bishop of one of the cities of Cyprus, Trimithus by name. Being a very modest person, he tended his sheep while holding the bishopric. Once in the middle of the night some thieves crept up to the sheepfold intending to steal some of the sheep. But God, who was saving the shepherd, saved the sheep too: the thieves were trussed up near the fold by an unseen force. At first light the shepherd came to the sheep and, finding [the thieves] with their hands [tied] behind their backs, he realized what had happened. He offered a prayer then released the thieves. He admonished and exhorted them at some length to pursue honest work rather than live from evil-doing. He gave them one ram and sent them on their way; calling out laughingly he said: “The ram is so you will not seem to have been up all night for nothing.”"

"A brother visited Abba Elijah who was living in hesychia at the coenobion of the cave of Abba Zabba and he said to him: “Abba, tell me a saying.” The elder said to the brother: “In the days of our fathers these three virtues were cherished: indifference to possessions, meekness, and continence. Now cupidity, gluttony, and arrogance hold monks in prey. Hold fast to which you will.”"

"For them to be so composed was fantastic, but I think we'll probably go up and down but we'll go up again and we'll be ready for the grunty bit at the end of the week"

"A girl with a dream is fire."

"Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come"

"The revolution of equality between men and women has began, there is no going back."

"It's just a different perspective end on [the court], and a different view of the world. When you're up close and personal it's not quite the same, so I'm just taking some stats and looking for trends"

"Standard Indonesian has been a uniting force for the nation since pre-independence times, especially through the Youth Pledge in 1928. With its role as a link between various ethnicities in Indonesia, the Standard Indonesian, with more than 275 million speakers, has also traveled the world, with the inclusion of Indonesian language curricula in 52 countries around the world with at least 150,000 foreign speakers currently."

"No living thing exists in isolation. A little empathy can go a long way"

"When you enter a fight you need to know who you are fighting, the role of the battle, and the independence of the referee."

"Fatma Karume"

"under the guidance of the Zimbabwe Olympic Committee have participated in both the Commonwealth and Olympic games since 1980. Medals have been attained at all the Commonwealth Games that Zimbabwe participated in, as well as at two of the Olympic Games."

"I paint people because figuration is a better vehicle for my ideas and is more accessible to the viewer, especially in Zimbabwe. I use my art to re-create the world on my own terms; taboos become exposed and the hidden is given prominence. In my work, women are more than just powerless beasts of burden and the male body becomes objectified for the delight of the voyeur. In this world there is no black and white but it is full of everything in between'"

""I set my goals and achieved them because we trained well and were ready. The only problem we faced is that we had to travel to Mozambique with a car and arrived there tired and fatigued which had an impact on our performances,”"

"She represented Zimbabwe in discus at the 1982 Commonwealth Games, 1983 World Championships and 1985 African Commonwealth Games. Van Heerden also competed in the shot put in the Commonwealth Games in 1982."

"Van Heerden was born in Southern Rhodesia but grew up in South Africa and was the holder of South African records in shot put and discus throw as well as a multiple South African champion in both these events (1980 and 1981). She was awarded Springbok colours during the years of the international sports boycott of South Africa."

"Olivia Mugove and Ayalew Aweke have won the XXXIII edition of the National Cross Country “Fiestas de la Virgen” held on the circuit of the “Juan Palao” Sports Complex in Yecla on a pleasant morning that allowed them to enjoy the great annual Cross Country festival, with the presence of hundreds of spectators who enjoyed the sports morning, especially at the time of the two elite events."

"Kurt Russell - Lee Shaw"

"Mari Yamamoto - Keiko Miura"

"- Michelle Duvall"

"- May Olowe-Hewitt"

"- Cate Randa"

"Ren Watabe - Kentaro Miura"

"“She thought football was like soccer,” Edelstein said to “Philadelphia Daily News” after Diana passed away in 1997. “She asked, ‘What are your colors?’ I said, ‘Green and silver.’ She said, ‘Those are my favorite colors.’“"

"Feelings or affects are composed through our encounters with bodies—both animate and inanimate. We often do not pay sufficient attention to the ways in which inanimate objects intersect with animate life or, even further, the ways in which the division between inanimate and animate is a normative construction rather than an essential opposition. To recognize this is an ethical move, one that compels responsibility toward all that is supposedly inanimate or nonorganic and considered decidedly separate from ourselves (think here of the environment, both natural and built)."

"Writers write precisely because they believe literature can cross all kinds of borders—linguistic, identic, geographical, temporal, experiential, and so on. It is an extremely narrow and one-dimensional understanding of what it means to be an “authentic” Arab today—and a “proper” Arab writer more specifically—if we insist upon limiting what language that writer can think and dream and write in. If literary experiments were thus restricted, literature would be a rather fallow field. In fact, it would be incredibly boring."

"Care should be taken in allowing things to go in social media, especially those that involve your personal life""

"Politics can be a dirty game when it is interfered with by people with bad intentions. In a pure environment of people doing politics with pure goals and intentions, it is difficult to see politics as a dirty game."

"“Ote Me Mu.”"

"Life is a journey, but maybe the journey is not about becoming anything. Maybe it is about unbecoming everything that is not really you, and becoming who you were meant to be in the first place."

"“I am honored to be the first woman to hold the position of prime minister in Tunisia. I will work to form a coherent government to face the country’s economic difficulties, fight corruption, and respond to the demands of Tunisians regarding their natural rights to transport, health, and education.”"

"[About sexual allegations:] There is something quite unusual about the mood when discussing these kind of sexual crimes at the moment, at least it's unusual historically. It hasn't happened before. You might say that it has happened at previous more religious moments in history."

"""It’s like rivals. It’s like everybody wants to be the boss of Women’s Football in Nigeria and that is how it is going to play."

"After many years of being ranked as the world’s number one nation when it comes to auditing and reporting standards, South Africa’s reputation has been tarnished by the string of recent corporate scandals, with auditors standing accused of failing to spot the potential for corporate failings or accounting scandals. The extent to which this is warranted, or can be described as an audit profession failure rather than a wider business issue, is open to some debate. What is clear, is that the profession has work to do in rebuilding and regaining this lost trust."

"It's probably not a good idea to overlook female CEOs or Black CEOs. Because they're driving an enormous amount of value in business. And you overlook it at your own expense."

"The first thing is to know that information, knowledge and ideas reside everywhere and that there are people out there who know what needs to be done, but are not always linked up in the system of implementation.""