"We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable."

-- H. G. Wells

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“Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.”
“The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.”

Source : "Prajna Sutra". Book by Subhas Kak, 2007.
“My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.”
“You may be surprised to learn that, in our law, although the fetus is currently without the right to life, it does have some rights. For instance, under civil law, the unborn child has the right to inherit part of his father's estate should his father die before he is born, and he has the right to sue his Mother, or a doctor, for injuiries sustained while in the womb.”
“I had reached up and pulled the castle of dreams down around him.”
“Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.”

Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1995). “The genius of haiku: readings from R.H. Blyth on poetry, life, and Zen”
“Yes. The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference. That is why few people find God. They go to church and talk about him and that sort of thing. They may even go out and evangelize and try to win converts. But in their hearts, if they are honest with themselves, they are indifferent to him because they cannot see him. God is too abstract for people. God is a word without meaning. If Jesus came back today, nothing he said would make any sense to those who wait for him. They would be the first ones to kill him again.”

Source : Christopher Pike (1994). “Black Blood”, p.154, Simon and Schuster
“A finished person is a boring person.”

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