"The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point."

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Source : Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.57, Red Wheel/Weiser

Mahmud Shabistari

#Past Quotes #Years Quotes #Tiny Quotes

“All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.”
“He was in blue jeans and a work shirt, which is another weird quirk of Rich Old Men. Just one of the guys here. Blue jeans and a work shirt, salt of the earth, working man like yourself. Like they're somehow uncomfortable about being rich enough to sleep in a bed made of vaginas being pulled around the town at night by a fleet of gold-covered midgets.”
“Though my mom had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred and destroyed, she instilled in me that I could have dreams. And not just have dreams but had a responsibility to make them reality. My mom taught me from a very early age that I could do anything I wanted to do.”
“Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2015). “The Big Time: Top Science Fiction”, p.16, 谷月社
“What is different in capitalist civilization has been two things. First, the process of meritocracy has been proclaimed as an official virtue instead of being merely a de facto reality. The culture has been different. And secondly, the percentage of the world's population for whom such ascent was possible has gone up. But even though it has grown up, meritocratic ascent remains very much the attribute of a minority.”
“I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The love of a parent, that connection, it's eternal.”
“If you didn't have patents, no one would bother to spend money on research and development. But with patents, if someone has a good idea and a competitor can't copy it, then that competitor will have to think of their own way of doing it. So then, instead of just one innovator, you have two or three people trying to do something in a new way.”

Source : "How James Dyson Makes the Ordinary Extraordinary". Interview with Shoshana Berger, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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