"The trains are central to Bombay just as the subway is central to New York; they are the great social laboratory of that city. And today, they became a charnel-house."

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Source : Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Suketu Mehta

#Today Quotes #Laboratory Quotes #Train Quotes

“A man may be an heretic in the truth, and if he believe things only because his pastor says so, or the assembly so determines, without knowing other reason, though his belief be true, yet the very truth he holds becomes his heresy.”

Source : Frederic W. Farrar (2003). “History of Interpretation: Bampton Lectures, 1885”, p.16, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.”

Source : Kate Simon (1959). “New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill”
“Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day”
“If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.”
“Fearlessness comes from working with the softness of the human heart.”

Source : Chogyam Trungpa (2009). “Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior”, p.36, Shambhala Publications
“Some things happen by accident - embrace them.”
“If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.”
“Months are different in college, especially freshman year. Too much happens. Every freshman month equals six regular monthsâ€”they're like dog months.”

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