"Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body."

-- James Buchanan

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“In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that is not gained through science and empirical experiments. In the modern West knowledge is of objective, finite particulars in historical time. India recognizes that kind of useful information: it calls it "lower knowledge." Higher knowledge (paravidya) proceeds differently, or rather it doesn't proceed at all but enters history full-blown on the morning of a new creation.”
“You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.”
“One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.”
“Why? is the boy's motto, why does, why is, why not? Food, weather, time, fires, sea and season, clothes and cars and people; it's all grist to the mill of why.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.94, LSU Press
“The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.”
“It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”
“I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.”

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