"The labours I devoted between 1888 to 1900 to the critical edition, translation and commentary of Kalhana's Rajatarangini, the only true historical text of Sanskrit literature, afforded me ample opportunities of gaining close contact with Sanskrit savants of Kashmir, the land where traditional learning of Hindu India had flourished in old times greatly and survived until recent years."

-- Aurel Stein

#Opportunity Quotes #Years Quotes #Land Quotes

“The most frequent way that I will communicate with him Obamacis when we're traveling. We talk about what's in the news, and I hear him talking about issues that are important to him.”
“The death penalty can be tolerated only by extreme statist reactionaries who demand a state that is so powerful that it has the right to kill.”
“Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“When struck by a thunderbolt it is unnecessary to consult the Book of Dates as to the precise meaning of the omen.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “The Wallet of Kai Lung”, p.15, Ernest Bramah
“I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.”
“Life is short for those who are truly able to understand that one day the entire world will come to a complete end. Not everyone is capable of that. Not everyone has the ability to comprehend what going away for all eternity really implies. There are too many distractions, hour by hour, minute by minute, to hinder such an understanding.”

Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “The Orange Girl”, p.71, Hachette UK
“The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.”

Source : 1904-5 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (translated by Talcott Parsons,1930).
“Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.”

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