"Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff."

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Source : Anthony Elliott, Zygmunt Bauman (2007). “The contemporary Bauman”

Zygmunt Bauman

#Real Quotes #Smart Quotes #Moving Quotes

“Nothing says hell has to be fire.”

Source : Robert Goolrick (2010). “A Reliable Wife”, p.4, Algonquin Books
“It seems to me that we spend most of our spiritual energies trying to explain why the God of Elijah, Samson, David, and Paul seems to have lost His muscle in our modern age. Did He grow tired of performing heroics? Did He wax feeble after all these years of running this whole universal show? Could it be true that God has really lost His muscle? Maybe it would be more accurate to say God lost His men.”
“A moral person is one who constantly exercises, and acts on, his best rational judgment.”
“I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.”
“It's a risky business being a cyclist in the UK, there are a lot of people who really dislike us. It's the Jeremy Clarkson influence - we're hated on the roads. We just hope people realise we are just flesh and bones on two wheels.”
“Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?”
“The liberty of the press is not confined to newspapers and periodicals. It necessarily embraces pamphlets and leaflets. These indeed have been historic weapons in the defense of liberty, as the pamphlets of Thomas Paine and others in our history abundantly attest.”
“The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.”

Source : John Vaillant (2010). “The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival”, p.51, Vintage

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