"Societies that do not eat people are fascinated by those that do."

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Source : Ronald Wright (1986). “On Fiji Islands”, New York, N.Y. : Viking

Ronald Wright

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“Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.”
“I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.”
“And they both began to laugh over nothing as children will when they are happy together. And they laughed so that in the end they were making as much noise as if they had been two ordinary healthy natural ten-year-old creaturesâ€”instead of a hard, little, unloving girl and a sickly boy who believed that he was going to die.”
“Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.”
“Death can come at any minute, in any way. We do not know what is in store tomorrow, or, whether there is a tomorrow, or even a tonight! But still, we have the golden present. Now we are alive and kicking. What should we do now? Love all, serve all.”
“A man may climb Everest for himself, but at the summit he plants his country's flag.”
“To grow old is to grow remorseful.”

Source : Randy Cohen (2012). “Be Good: How to Navigate the Ethics of Everything”, p.10, Chronicle Books
“If you are using search data to decide what's fashionable, you are not fashionable.”

Source : "Limericks". "Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, kdlg.org. May 2, 2015.

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