"The works of nature first acquire a meaning in the commentaries they provoke."

-- George Santayana

#Nature Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Provoking Quotes

“There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.
“One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.”
“When she looked at herself in her wedding photographs, Ammu felt the woman that looked back at her was someone else. A foolish jewelled bride. Her silk sunset-coloured sari shot with gold. Rings on every finger. White dots of sandalwood paste over her arched eye-brows. Looking at herself like this, Ammu's soft mouth would twist into a small, bitter smile at the memory - not of the wedding itself so much as the fact that she had permitted herself to be so painstakingly decorated before being led to the gallows. It seemed so absurd. So futile. Like polishing firewood.”
“Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.”
“As we rise to meet the challenges that are a natural part of living, we awaken to our many undiscovered gifts, to our inner power and our purpose.”
“It was very difficult. We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell. I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.”
“I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.”
“It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new [post-Cold-War] world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural. Nation states will remain the most powerful actors in world affairs, but the principal conflicts of global politics will occur between nations and groups of different civilizations. The clash of civilizations will dominate global politics. The fault lines between civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.”

Source : "The Clash of Civilizations?". Foreign Affairs, www.foreignaffairs.com. Summer 1993.

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