"The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning."

-- Idries Shah

#Book Quotes #Mean Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“Sometimes going in for a hard tackle generates a louder cheer than a great pass.”
“Possibility is not a luxury; it is as crucial as bread.”

Source : Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.29, Psychology Press
“I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.”
“We are machines built by DNA whose purpose is to make more copies of the same DNA. ... This is exactly what we are for. We are machines for propagating DNA, and the propagation of DNA is a self-sustaining process. It is every living object's sole reason for living.”
“The state is the nursing mother of human culture.”
“These developments - a massive transfer of land by way of inheritance and purchase, an unprecedented rise in the profitability of land and increasing intermarriage between Celtic and English dynasties - helped to consolidate a new unitary ruling class in place of the more separate and specific landed establishments that had characterised England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the Tudor and Stuart eras.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.161, Yale University Press
“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

Source : "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.
“"Cannonball Adderley said, 'First 20 minutes we'll jazz out, then the last hour it's gonna be songs that people paid to see.' Which is why he was driving a Rolls-Royce."”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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