"I'm going to die with my mind intact. And to me that is the most exciting way you could possibly die."

-- Bryce Courtenay

#Mind Quotes #Way Quotes #Exciting Quotes

“Still being ambitious to want to play on the record, I was a mediocre keyboard player. And uh, I seized the opportunity and played the organ.”

Source : "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in the Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.
“Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.”

Source : "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.
“I'm learning to fly, but I ain't got wings. Coming down is the hardest thing.”
“For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.”

Source : Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1839). “The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises”, p.274
“A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions”

Source : "Various meanings of 'theory'". American Political Science Review, 52.04, 1958.
“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
“You can slow time down by traveling. That month from Shringar to the Taj Mahal is like a year in my life currently. Really, time is a measure of change, in a vacuum time doesn't exist because nothing's changing. If you can pack your life full of interesting changes you stretch it out. So if you want to live longer, have a really interesting life.”
“The true measure of your character is what you would do if you were sure no one would ever find out.”

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