"You ask why I make my home n the mountain forest, and I smile, and am silent, and even my soul remains quiet: it lives in the other world which no one owns. The peach trees blossom, The water flows."

-- Li Bai

#Home Quotes #Other Worlds Quotes #Water Quotes

“Here she comes that little town flirt, you're falling for her and you're gonna get hurt.”

Source : Song: Little Town Flirt
“Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them.”

Source : Leo Calvin Rosten (1972). “Rome wasn't burned in a day: the mischief of language”
“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”
“There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.”
“There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.”
“Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.”
“You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”
“The 'natural' is not necessarily a 'human' value. Humanity has begun to transcend nature: we can no longer justify the maintenance of a discriminatory sex class system on grounds of its origins in nature. Indeed, for pragmatic reasons alone it is beginning to look as if we must get rid of it.”

Source : "Shulamith Firestone obituary" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.

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