"I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future."

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Source : Lu Xun (2014). “Call to Arms”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

Lu Xun

#Existential Quotes

“Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google”
“This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .”
“I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.”
“The Industrial Revolution was another one of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization.”
“My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'”
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
“Our task now is to resynthesize biology; put the organism back into its environment; connect it again to its evolutionary past; and let us feel that complex flow that is organism, evolution, and environment united. The time has come for biology to enter the nonlinear world.”

Source : "A New Biology for a New Century" by Carl Woese, mmbr.asm.org. June 1, 2004.
“The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere with any one's religion, either to strengthen it or to weaken it. I am not able to believe one's religion can affect his hereafter one way or the other, no matter what that religion may be. But it may easily be a great comfort to him in this life-hence it is a valuable possession to him.”

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