“But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.” MindDoeBodyMovingFourAwarenessMaterialsElementsStonesPlantFour Elements Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
“The median family of four ... paid $4,722 in federal taxes last year. That's enough to pay for a new curtain for the secretary of commerce's office, to bribe a farmer not to plant 38 acres with corn ... seven weeks of salary for a Customs man assigned to save us from the terror of high-quality, low priced foreign TV sets, or the subsidy on 6,000 bushels of wheat to prop up the Soviet regime. Surely civilization would collapse without such essential services.” MenYearsEnoughLastsPayQualityFourWeekTvsCivilizationTaxesEssentialsOfficeLowsPaidPlantSevenTerrorCustomsFarmersSovietRegimesCollapseCommerceLast YearSecretaryCurtainsSalaryCornWheatPropsHigh QualityBribeAcresSubsidiesMedianFederal Taxes Author:Alan Bock
“Oh thrice and four times happy... those who plant cabbages.” FourFoodCookingPlantCulinaryCabbageThrice Author:Francois Rabelais
“There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.” WorldKindDifferentProblemAnimalMillionsFourAliveSolutionsPlantStayingDifferent KindsStaying Alive Author:David Attenborough
“Men emerge pale from the little printing plant at four sharp, ghosts for an instant, blinking, until the outdoor light overcomes the look of constant indoor light clinging to them.” MenLooksLittlesLightFourOvercomingConstantPlantGhostInstantPalePrintingClinging Book:Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy Source: Rabbit Angstrom: a tetralogy