"How carelessly imperial power vivisected ancient civilizations. Palestine and Kashmir are imperial Britain's festering, blood-drenched gifts to the modem world. Both are fault lines in the raging international conï¿½icts of today."

-- Arundhati Roy

#Blood Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Kashmir Quotes

“Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.”

Source : "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.
“Where man had been, in every place he left, garbage remained. Even in his pursuit of the ultimate truth and quest for his God, he produced garbage. By his garbage, which lay stratum upon stratum, he could always - one had only to dig - be known. For more long-lived than man is his refuse. Garbage alone lives after him.”
“When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.”

Source : "The Labour Party in Perspective" by Clement Attlee, Left Book Club, 1937.
“I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.”
“Almost instantly [after my announcement of Parkinson's], I saw the first couple of days the coverage was about, you know, "Fox's Parkinson's, blah, blah, blah." Then, two days after that, I saw the coverage turn. It started to become, "Can young people get Parkinson's?" All of a sudden, the conversation turned to become about that. And that was one of the first eye-opening things.”
“Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger.”
“True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.”
“The commonest form, one of the most often neglected, and the safest opportunity for the average man to seize, is hard work.”

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