"Immortality without eternity is a rope with only one end."

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Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.61, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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“There's not a word in the Quran or the Hadith that requires that women cover their faces. To the contrary, the only requirement is that they uncover their faces when they're doing the haj.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“How natural it is to destroy what we cannot possess, to deny what we do not understand, and to insult what we envy!”
“Do you know what you're saying when you say, "Whatever"? It's just a code word for the f-word, followed by "you." And at your age, you never, ever. say that to anyone.' " Blaze leaned back. "So now, when someone says it to me, I just say, 'You too.' (72)”
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

Source : "About Time: Einstein's Unfinished Revolution". Book by Paul Davies, 1996.
“I began painting well before I started doing comedy. In fact, when I came out of the war in 1946, I enrolled in art school in Dayton, Ohio. I painted for three years, and then show business took hold.”
“Abortion is defended today as a means of ensuring the equality and independence of women, and as a solution to the problems of single parenting, child abuse, and the feminization of poverty.”
“In reading we must become creators.”
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

Source : "Magical realism ... and fakery" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2001.

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