"one feels guilty on behalf of Western civilisation. What damage are we doing, blindly and swiftly, to those races who are being taught that because we are materially richer we must be emulated without question? What compels us to infect everyone else with our own sick urgency to change, soften and standardise? How can we have the effrontery to lord it over peoples who retain what we have lost - a sane awareness that what matters most is immeasurable?"

-- Dervla Murphy

#What Matters Quotes #Race Quotes #Sick Quotes

“No need to act, i let my fear show "He killed himself," i whispered. Eve raised an eyebrow. "Fourteen times?" "He had bad aim.”

Source : Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Spy Glass”, p.173, MIRA
“In war, good guys always become bad guys.”
“Scouting is a man's job cut down to a boy's size.”
“...everything looks worse in black and white.”
“Graham Yost is a genius, and I know that very well because we worked together on 'Band of Brothers' and 'Boomtown.'”
“The business models in enterprise have changed pretty dramatically. A huge problem with enterprise software traditionally has been usually you sell to the customer and then they adopt the technology. The great thing about 'freemium' and the new way enterprise software is being sold is you get to try it first and then buy it.”
“I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.”

Source : "Naomi Campbell reveals extreme beauty regime on Oprah Winfrey slot" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2010.
“Weâ€™re all doing the best we can and sometimes it is not that good.”

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