"In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape."

--

Gerald Brenan

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“One day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.”
“I was wondering about my eyes; one of my eyes--the left--saw everything golden and yellow and orange, and the other eye saw shades of blue and grey and green; perhaps one eye was for daylight and the other was for night. If everyone in the world saw different colors from different eyes there might be a great many new colors still to be invented.”
“Your excuses are nothing more than the lies your fears have sold you.”
“While I'm frustrated at the amount I'm expected to take on in the present, the 1950s woman was frustrated by being excluded - not being allowed to take things on at all.”
“There's a reason why forty, fifty, and sixty don't look the way they used to, and it's not because of feminism, or better living through exercise. It's because of hair dye. In the 1950's only 7 percent of American women dyed their hair; today there are parts of Manhattan and Los Angeles where there are no gray-haired women at all.”
“Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires.”

Source : Max Muller (2013). “Sacred Books of the East: Including Selections from the Vedic Hymns, Zend-Avesta, Dhammapada, Upanishads, the Koran, and the Life of Buddha”, p.146, Lulu Press, Inc
“One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.”

Source : "Ringworld". Book by Larry Niven, 1970.
“When real revival happens, it changes the moral climate of a community...because we've turned from our wicked ways.”

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