"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die."

-- Vivian Balakrishnan

#Girl Quotes #Fall Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.”

Source : Reginald (1904) "Reginald at the Carlton"
“Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.”
“Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of reason, that's all we have between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feelings.”
“It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too.”

Source : "Something Just Beyond Words". Interview with Molly McArdle, logger.believermag.com. April 25, 2014.
“The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.”

Source : Alva Myrdal's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1982.
“Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.”
“If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.”
“I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.”

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