"The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter."

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Source : 1829 TheMisfortunes of Elphin,'TheWar-Song of DinasVawr'.

Thomas Love Peacock

#Sheep Quotes #Mountain Quotes #Valleys Quotes

“If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.”
“Peace be upon him who follows the Straight Path!”
“To perceive that form reveals the void, and to see that the void reveals form, is the secret for the overcoming of death. To the extent that one is unaware of space, one is unaware of one's own eternity â€” it's the same thing!”
“We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.”

Source : Peter Corning (2003). “Nature's Magic: Synergy in Evolution and the Fate of Humankind”, p.299, Cambridge University Press
“In the course of time one does not feel even the existence of God. After attaining enlightenment one sees that gods and deities are all Maya.”
“Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.”
“Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent.”
“The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.”

Source : "The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate". In a Usenet message, January 29, 1992.

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