"As Dr. Chiang puts it, “while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls."

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Source : Carlo M. Cipolla (1970). “European culture and overseas expansion”

Carlo M. Cipolla

#Elephants Quotes #White Quotes #Drs Quotes

“I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.”

Source : "I gave it my best shot" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.
“If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.”
“I wish all men were like dogs.”
“To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.”
“The middle way is still driving on the wrong side of the road; it still permits the killing of the fox for pleasure. One cannot kill half a fox. Like Monty Python parrot, a fox torn apart by hounds remains dead, deceased and off its perch for ever. Before the fox has been dispatched - sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly - it will have suffered the agonies of the pursuit by animals four times its size and four times its strength. The middle way is a compromise that still seriously compromises the welfare of the fox.”
“Tears never yet saved a soul. Hell is full of weepers weeping over lost opportunities, perhaps over the rejection of an offered Saviour. Your Bible does not say " Weep, and be saved." It says, "Believe, and be saved." Faith is better than feeling.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 244, 1895.
“Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them”
“This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me”

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