"In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning."

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Amadou Hampate Ba

#Men Quotes #Library Quotes #Burning Quotes

“How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.”

Source : Nancy Horan (2012). “Loving Frank (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.174, Ballantine Books
“Women writers of all people should know better than to pigeonhole women, put them in little groups, the smart one, the sweet one.”
“Freedom from mental distraction equals power. Body mind masters eventually come to the realization that this and every moment, on or off the field, is the moment of truth.”
“Jordan is many different things and there's many different parts of it. We don't ever really get to see a modern Arab city, a part of the Arab world where people are seemingly living their lives like everywhere else and also just a part of the Arab world that's surprisingly Americanized, with fast-food joints everywhere and shopping malls. Over the 30 years I've been traveling there, I really saw it grow and become modernized and much more Americanized in a way that surprised me as an Arab-American.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.”

Source : Bliss Carman (1906). “Pipes of Pan: Containing "From the Book of Myths", "From the Green Book of the Bards", "Songs of the Sea Children", "Songs from a Northern Garden", "From the Book of Valentines,"”
“Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M.D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him.”

Source : Growing Up Absurd" by Paul Goodman, (pp. 145-146), 1956.
“Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.”

Source : Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai (1987). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.279, World Scientific
“Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.”

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