"The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples."

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Source : Walter M. Miller Jr (2013). “Dark Benediction”, p.83, Hachette UK

Walter M. Miller, Jr.

#Judging Quotes #Survival Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again.”
“I love uplifting television.”
“I think the political class, just overall, has underestimated the suffering in America.”
“Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.”
“Over the years, confusing fragments, lost corners of stories, have a clearer meaning when seen in a new light, a different place.”
“The more learned and witty you bee, the more fit to act for Satan will you bee.”

Source : "The powring ovt of the seven vials".
“there won't be one, single global market. But there will be global investors.”

Source : "The Age of Global Markets and the Global Investor". Presentation at 25th International SFOA Bürgenstock Conference, 2004.
“Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.”

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