"Remember that you are at an exceptional hour in a unique epoch, that you have this great happiness, this invaluable privilege, of being present at the birth of a new world."

-- Sri Aurobindo

#Unique Quotes #World Quotes #Birth Quotes

“If we want to defeat Islamic State, we first have to arrive at a cease-fire agreement in Syria. Once that has been achieved, an anti-IS coalition can be assembled, including Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iran. That, however, will be significantly more difficult in the wake of Turkey's downing of the Russian plane.”
“All in all, the communally reared children of Israel are far from the emotional disasters that psychoanalytic theory predicted. Neither have they been saved from all personality problems, as the founders of the kibbutz movement had hoped when they freed children from their parents. In any reasonable environment, children seem to grow up to be themselves. There is no evidence that communal rearing with stimulating, caring adults is either the ruination or the salvation of children.”
“It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.”
“Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.”

Source : Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Diary”, p.140, Random House
“Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1979). “The open cage: an Anzia Yezierska collection”
“In the average newspaper there is not a complete suppression of stories that the sacred cows don't want printed. But rather what happens is that the stories get printed with stresses, colorations and emphasis that favor the sacred cows.”
“The Christian... imagines the better future of the human species... in the image of heavenly joy... We, on the other hand, will have this heaven on earth.”
“To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear.”

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