"Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round."

-- Swami Vivekananda

#Giving Up Quotes #Race Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern.”
“People working for a news organization, even those with a point of view, are supposed to exercise independent judgment.”

Source : "Donna Brazile's Resignation Illustrates Cable TV's Pundit Problem". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. November 2, 2016.
“Because I think in order to get famous you have to be known for something. Like 'You're the romantic comedy girl' or 'You're the Oscar-winning whatever girl.'”
“There are necessary evils. Money is an important thing in terms of representing freedom in our world. And now I have a daughter to think about. It's really the first time I've thought about the future and what it could be.”
“Let's buy books so as not to read them; let's go to concerts without caring to hear the music or see who's there; let's take long walks because we're sick of walking; and let's spend whole days in the country, just because it bores us.”
“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

Source : William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.181, Penguin
“Other anatomical changes associated with long-duration space flight are definitely negative: the immune system weakens, the heart shrinks because it doesn't have to strain against gravity, eyesight tends to degrade, sometimes markedly (no one's exactly sure why yet). The spine lengthens as the little sacs of fluid between the vertebrae expand, and bone mass decreases as the body sheds calcium. Without gravity, we don't need muscle and bone mass to support our own weight, which is what makes life in space so much fun but also so inherently bad for the human body, long-term.”
“And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.178, Lulu Press, Inc

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