"The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms."

-- Ramana Maharshi

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“Dolly Parton, who said to her doctor, Are you sure it's a chest cold? Never got a dinner!”
“The boys at school are so degenerate that it makes one feel pessimistic about the future of the male gender in general.”
“Look, I'm very much in favor of tax cuts, but not with borrowed money. And the problem that we've gotten into in recent years is spending programs with borrowed money, tax cuts with borrowed money, and at the end of the day that proves disastrous. And my view is I don't think we can play subtle policy here.”
“The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome”

Source : Claudia Roden (1984). “Everything tastes better outdoors”, Random House Inc
“I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.”
“Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.”
“Flowers are born, and they wither...”
“You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'”

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