"With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology."

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Source : Dervla Murphy (1987). “Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle”, p.76, The Overlook Press

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“Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.”

Source : "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.
“It is paradoxical but nonetheless true that the nearer man comes to his goal to make his life easy and abundant, the more he undermines the foundations of a meaningful existence.”

Source : Franz Alexander (1960). “The Western Mind in Transition: An Eyewitness Story”, New York, Random House [1960]
“My main piece of advice would be dont worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also dont be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and dont be afraid.”
“The only really unplayable lie I can think of is when you're supposed to be playing golf and come home with lipstick on your collar.”
“This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.”

Source : Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.13, Best Books on
“Wars are times of intense technological transformation, because societies invest - sometimes with extensive borrowing - when and where matters of life and death are at stake.”

Source : George Friedman (2011). “The Next Decade: Where We've Been . . . and Where We're Going”, p.225, Anchor
“All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.”
“I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.”

Source : Wendelin Van Draanen (2011). “The Running Dream”, p.4, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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