"I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Cities Quotes #Culture Quotes #World Quotes

“This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection.”
“Being a parent is not easy, but speaking for myself, it's a wonderful blessing and the most rewarding job I've ever had.”
“Part of teaching is helping students learn how to tolerate ambiguity, consider possibilities, and ask questions that are unanswerable.”
“There are different flavours of sexiness.”
“There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil.”
“Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.”
“But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.”
“We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit.”

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