"... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing."

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Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.299, Macmillan

Amin Maalouf

“The universe is nothing without the things that live in it, and everything that lives, eats.”

Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2009). “The Physiology of Taste: or Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy”, p.15, Vintage
“Bad dogs, she believed, were like most bad children: created by those around them. But then, that was a personal opinion.”

Source : Heather Graham (2009). “Dust to Dust”, p.27, MIRA
“Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly, Glenn D. Paige (1992). “Nonviolence Speaks to Power”, Matsunaga Inst for Peace
“My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research.”
“I smiled, danced and cried my way out.”
“He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power.”
“Dad made me laugh a lot. He was a real comedian. He had a real sarcastic sense of humour, he could really make a fool out of people. I have to watch it a little bit, because I caught that habit from him. I was really fond of him. He was my idol.”
“If you love animals but think that veganism is extreme, then you are confused about the meaning of love.”

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