"We really owe a great deal to the rubber tree"

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Source : Interview with Dan Rivers, www.cnn.com. July 23, 2007.

Mechai Viravaidya

#Tree Quotes #Rubber Quotes #Deals Quotes

“Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments. Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.”
“No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins we the people, not us the government.”
“For those who resist the notion that the mainstream is a genre, we recommend that they browse the shelves of their local bookstore. For if the mainstream is not a genre, then it must necessarily embrace all kinds of writing: romance, adventure, horror, thriller, crime, and, yes, science fiction.”
“The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.”
“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”

Source : FaceBook post by Aravind Adiga from Nov 30, 2013
“The tides are in our veins, we still mirror the stars, life is your child, but there is in me Older and harder than life and more impartial, the eye that watched before there was an ocean.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.39, Stanford University Press
“Lend.â€ â€œLend?â€ Raquel asked. â€œYes, as in, lend me your self.â€ He shimmered into Raquel again. â€œWhy not Borrow?â€ I asked. â€œBetter yet, Steal?”
“Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.”

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