"Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life."

-- Andre Malraux

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“If people wanted to fight me-because of my hair or because my skin was too dark-then I fought them”
“I'm living the American dream.”
“In less than twenty-five years . . . the motor-car will be obsolete, because the aeroplane will run along the ground as well as fly over it.”

Source : Philip Gibbs (1928). “The Day After To-morrow: What is Going to Happen to the World?”
“Like slaves on the sugar plantations of the Antilles, ...the sugar slaves of southern Louisiana had negative birthrates for as long as slavery lasted.”
“In life, there are no shortcuts to joy. Anything that is worth pursuing requires us to suffer just a little bit.”
“We shall always be a small minority in the world, but, when a small nation accomplishes something with its limited means, what it achieves has an immense and exceptional value, like the widow's mite. It is a deliberate and discerning love of a nation that appeals to me, not the indiscriminate love that assumes everything to be right because it bears a national label. Love of one's own nation should not entail non-love of other nations. Institutions by themselves are not enough.”
“If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.”
“The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (1986). “Nobody's Angel”, Vintage

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