"God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture."

-- Richard Dawkins

#Survival Quotes #Religion Quotes #Culture Quotes

“If any era should be aware of the temptations to rewrite history, it is our own.”

Source : Marjorie Garber (2008). “Shakespeare and Modern Culture”, p.108, Anchor
“I'm ever curious about the world.”
“Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?”
“His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down.”
“The easiest thing to do in the world is to neglect the important and give in to the urgent.”
“Parents who have been successful in acquiring more often have a difficult time saying no to the demands of overindulged children. Their children run the risk of not learning important values like hard work, delayed gratification, honesty, and compassion.”
“Does Obama really want his legacy to be, â€˜The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlainâ€™?”
“A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."”

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