"At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas."

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Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

Thomas Metzinger

#Reality Quotes #Smell Quotes #Political Quotes

“David Moyes, in Italy, would have been sacked three times now.”

Source : "Pity Tim Sherwood but Louis van Gaal can bring brilliance to Spurs" by Daniel Taylor, www.theguardian.com. April 12,2014.
“I am just the person who didn't want to settle for not having everything I dreamed of.”
“Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.”
“Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.”
“Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.”
“I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.”

Source : "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.
“There were days - she could remember this - when Henry would hold her hand as they walked home, middle-aged people, in their prime. Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it. But she had that memory now, of something healthy and pure.”

Source : Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.162, Random House
“The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah”

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