"British physician, West African Countries and Peoples Man's place is higher than the sky. Respect for man is the underlying spirit of civilization."

-- Muhammad Iqbal

#Country Quotes #Men Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.”
“A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six long finished with childbearing, although every day that I grow older I realize there is never anything unremarkable about losing any part of what makes you female - a breast, a womb, a child, a man.”
“What's great about art is that if you can reach people, if they hear or see what you do and it moves them, there's a commonality.”
“People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained.”
“No compact among men . . . can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other.”
“I never find sincerity offensive... so, be sincere.”
“Human beings did not have rights.Â Human beings created, from nothing, the domain of human rights.Â They called it up. They languaged it.Â They communicated it.Â Communication has that power.Â It has the power not only to represent and not only to evoke, but literally to bring something into being.Â Â And to know yourself, to know your self, as a context creator,Â is to transform the quality of your life.”
“I can be jubilant one moment and pensive the next, and a cloud could go by and make that happen.”

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