"Mass travel by air may prove to be more significant to world destiny than the atom bomb."

-- Juan Trippe

#Destiny Quotes #Air Quotes #Atoms Quotes

“Public Enemy is the security of the hip-hop party.”
“What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new.”
“If you love books enough, books will love you back.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.300, Macmillan
“One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?”
“Wait." "Stop?" I bit my lip and nodded. "Stop everything, or just go no further?" "Just...just no further." "Done." He gathered me into his arms and kissed me, one hand tangled in my hair and the other one caressing down my back, our hearts pulsing out a cadence that the musician in me translated into a concert of lust.”
“My body is the rock and roll temple and my flesh, blood and body fluids are a communion to the people whether they like it or not”
“He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.”
“Every acceptance of suffering is an acceptance of that which exists. The denial of every form of suffering can result in a flight from reality in which contact with reality becomes ever thinner, ever more fragmentary. It is impossible to remove oneself totally from suffering, unless one removes oneself from life itself, no longer enters into relationships, makes oneself invulnerable.”

Source : Dorothee Sölle (1975). “Suffering”, Fortress Press

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