James McAuley wrote: ‘Valediction: Roy Campbell’ 

He stood against the leveling stampede

And cracked the stockman’s whip of his polemic; 

He never left his friends or slurred his creed 

In times when cowardice grew epidemic. 

Action he loved, and honour, and the life 

Of simple men before machines were master. 

He gave a pure devotion to his wife, 

And said his rosary amidst disaster. 

Contemptuous of the babble of his time, 

He loved the Muses with a noble passion, 

Catching a golden splendour in his rhyme 

When rhyme and splendour both were out of fashion.

Who now shall bring back from our wars a song, 

Like Heracles returning with a trophy? 

May Christ who calls the singer from the throng 

Give stars and music to his heavenly strophe.

 

• “Objection. The question is argumentative.”

OBJECTION - LEADING THE WITNESS

OBJECTION - ASKED AND ANSWERED

Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, themechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the
Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the
lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians.

 The world record for the deadlift in the 148-pound weight class is just over 700 pounds, whereas the world record for the 308-pound weight class is 939 pounds. Doubling the weight class does not double how much a man can deadlift; it only increases the amount by about 30 percent. That is a dangerous tradeoff because large muscles require more oxygen to function, and if you are working so hard that you cannot replace that oxygen fast enough, you will go into oxygen debt.

 "If anyone tells you that there's no such thing as truth, they're asking you not to believe them, so don't"

 

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof

 Optimists look at adversity as temporary, external and not entirely their fault. 

Pessimists view adversity as unchangeable, pervasive and personal. 

 

Negative bias - when you're negative your brain goes in to  fight-or-flight mode, thinking that there could be an emergency, and that slows everything down, from creativity to your immune system."