"Peace is wonderful, but / ecstatic dance is more fun / and less narcissistic"

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Rumi

#Fun Quotes #Narcissistic Quotes #Wonderful Quotes

“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.”

Source : "The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind". Book by Simone Veil, part 2: Uprootedness, chapter 1: Uprootedness in the Towns, 2002.
“Walking abroad, one is the admiration of all little boys, and meets an approving glance from every eye of elderly.”
“The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.”
“I have this belief about things happening organically. I believe life has this organic flow in a way.”
“When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.”
“Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.”
“Always take a banana to a party.”
“At the hour of midnight the Salerian gate was silently opened, and the inhabitants were awakened by the tremendous sound of the Gothic trumpet. Eleven hundred and sixty-three years after the foundation of Rome, the Imperial city, which had subdued and civilised so considerable a part of mankind, was delivered to the licentious fury of the tribes of Germany and Scythia.”

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