"You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points."

-- Nathaniel Philbrick

#Children Quotes #Home Quotes #Twenties Quotes

“Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.”
“People knew about Babi Yar before Yevtushenko 's poem, but they were silent. And when they read the poem, the silence was broken. Art destroys silence.”

Source : "Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich". Book by Solomon Volkov, New York: Limelight, pp. 158-9, 2006.
“Bullfighting has some of the elements of a sport or contest, and in the United States most people think of it as a sport, an unfair sport. If you're in Spain or Mexico it's absolutely not a sport; it's not thought of as a sport and it's not written about as a sport. It has elements of public spectacle, but then so does, for example, the Super Bowl. It has elements of a deeply entrenched, deeply conservative tradition, a tradition that resists change, as you pointed out.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.”
“No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it.”
“I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.”
“The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society.”
“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.”

Source : In 'The Times' 15 April 1983 'Profile'

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