"Gold is the corpse of value..."

-- Neal Stephenson

#Gold Quotes #Values Quotes

“The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.”
“Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.”
“It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workersâ€¦ and familiesâ€¦ but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.”

Source : "Warrior: An Autobiography". Book by Ariel Sharon and David Chanoff, 1989.
“Molly: You don't like New Years Eve? Are you insane? It's literally the best holiday ever. You just party all night and it doesn't matter what stupid stuff you do because the year's over and you get a brand new start in the morning.”
“Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political, military and diplomatic illiteracy.”

Source : "Bush aide cites case for Saddam's removal". www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2002.
“Today, supremely, it behooves us to remember that a nation shall be saved by the power that sleeps in its own bosom; or by none; shall be renewed in hope, in confidence, in strength by waters welling up from its own sweet, perennial springs. Not from above; not by patronage of its aristocrats. The flower does not bear the root, but the root the flower.”
“In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.”
“The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.”

Source : Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.226, Lulu.com

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