"Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle."

-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

#Book Quotes #Essence Quotes #Principles Quotes

“I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.”
“Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It's so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.”
“Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.”
“I feel as if they are somewhere between movement and stillness, and thus in possession of a certain energy.”
“It is truth alone that capacitates any soul to glorify God.”
“I believe in most of the things Republicans stand for.”
“Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.”
“If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.”

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