"The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was on them to weight them down."

-- Margaret Atwood

#Makeup Quotes #Names Quotes #Stones Quotes

“The Holy Spirit, not the pope, is the vicar of Christ on earth.”
“Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only according to opinion: the truth in real things is that there are atoms and void. 'By convention sweet', he says, 'by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void.'”
“After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself.”
“People need BHAGs - big hairy audacious goals.”
“[Elizabeth Moon's] antagonists are always evil moustache-twirlers. She could write a book about a golf open and the main rival to the hero would turn out to have clubs made from compressed kittens.”

Source : Usenet article <[email protected]>, 2006.
“Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage
“Too much sanity may be madness.”
“The problem in Syria, I think, is that when there is so much violence, there is not only very little chance to create spaces for liberation, but also all talk is quickly swallowed up by it. People are trying to keep their heads down because they are being bombarded all the time.”

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