"In the uncertain ebb and flow of time and emotions much of one's life history is etched in the senses."

-- Banana Yoshimoto

#Ebb And Flow Quotes #Flow Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“I had so much fear of blood, and the first thing I did was to cut myself to see what happens. That's the only way to rebuild yourself.”
“Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and terrorism employed by Muslim extremists is rooted in the Quran and its message. Spencer calls the Quran, a book sacred to Muslim, 'the jihadists' Mein Kampf,' in reference to Hitler's memoir.”
“PoincarÃ© was a vigorous opponent of the theory that all mathematics can be rewritten in terms of the most elementary notions of classical logic; something more than logic, he believed, makes mathematics what it is.”
“[T]he influence of the German school is most obvious in relation to the contract theory of the origin of the state and the idea of the function of the state. The theory that the state originates in an agreement between men was assailed by the German thinkers and the historical, organic, evolutionary idea substituted for it.”
“It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.”
“I worked in a bookstore in Oslo, importing the English-language books.”
“I was never Vice Chair of the Troops Out Movement.”
“This world is a comedy, not Life.”

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