"The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on."

-- Adam Gopnik

#Loyalty Quotes #Past Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?”
“An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?”
“A circus of stars, your dreams a trapeze, faces lift like mirrored moons.”

Source : Imtiaz Dharker (2007). “The Terrorist at My Table”, p.156, Penguin Books India
“In any field, find the strangest thing and then explore it.”
“You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.”
“Yet when ancient forces stir, many things are woken.”
“To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.”
“'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother of God. But the Lord is also with every pious soul that believes in Him. The Lord's abiding with the Virgin Mary before she conceived the Savior is not a particularity proper to the most pure Virgin alone. The Lord is with every believing soul: 'The Lord is with you.' These words may be said to everyone who keeps the Lord's commandments.”

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