"Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold."

-- Alain de Lille

#Shining Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Songs are about whatever you want them to be about. For me it might mean something completely different than what it means to you. So I'd say it's about whatever the listener thinks it's about.”
“The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.”
“Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.”
“How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to be at once an arrow soaring skyward and an oak planted firmly in the ground? The meritocratic culture hones strivers on every aspect of their lives save one - how to cultivate character.”
“A woman has to look good, but a manâ€”a little bit nicer looking than a monkey is enough.”
“Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?”

Source : "John Keegan: A History of Warfare". "Booknotes" with Brian Lamb, booknotes.org. May 8, 1994.
“Reading Bicycling beyond the Divide was the best vacation I took all year-in a year I traveled to Mexico, France, and Italy. Even if you have never ridden a bike or set foot in the West, this book will make both a part of your life as vivid as any trip you have taken. Daryl Farmer's journey-into the heart of a land, of a time, into the very nature of memory and experience-is one I will never forget.”
“woman's cause is one and universal ...”

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