"This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good."

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Source : Anita Nair (2001). “Ladies Coupé: A Novel in Parts”, p.212, Penguin Books India

Anita Nair

#Light Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Half Quotes

“Don't know if I'm a nerd - I'm more of a geek.”

Source : "Oren Peli: 'I'm not a nerd or a luddite, I'm a geek really'". Interview With Stuart O'Connor, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2010.
“A new culture can only grow up in the soil of a purged humanity.”
“Nothing about contraception should be taught in schools. There is no question that it will encourage sexual activity.”
“I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.”
“I do, I’m afraid, understand books far more readily than I understand people. Books are so easy to get along with.”

Source : Katherine Rundell (2013). “Rooftoppers”, p.3, Simon and Schuster
“there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both.”
“If a person continues to see only giants, it means he is still seeing the world through the eyes of a child. I have a feeling that man's fear of woman comes from having first seen her as the mother, creator of men.”
“As I understand it, Kantian constructivism is partly a position in normative ethics and partly a position in metaethics. In metaethics, it is the position that ethical claims have truth values, but their truth conditions consist not in a set of objective facts to which they correspond, but instead in the outcome of some procedure of deliberation resulting in decisions about what to do.”

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