"Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians."

-- Mohsin Hamid

#Years Quotes #Cities Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.”
“If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.”
“Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.”
“Love yourself and you can heal your life.”
“I accept relationship as my primary teacher about myself, other people, and the mysteries of the universe.”

Source : Gay Hendricks, Kathlyn Hendricks (2009). “The Conscious Heart: Seven Soul-Choices That Create Your Relationship Destiny”, p.40, Bantam
“Always have sunglasses with you. They're great for when you can't be bothered to put make-up on.”
“When the people who are in power want to ... create an image to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime.”

Source : Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 171), 2013.
“If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.”

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