"The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future."

-- Christina Stead

#Religious Quotes #Son Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power.”
“Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.”
“Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.”
“There was a moment, late into the season, where I was noticing I was darkening a little bit at night. I was like, 'It will be nice when the show is over for the season. I need a vacation.'”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.”
“You'd see more floods like you've seen in Mozambique in 2000, you'd see more droughts like you saw in Kenya in the late 1990s, there would be a serious threat to the water flow down the Nile on which 10 countries depend.”
“When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.”

Source : James H. Austin (2011). “Meditating Selflessly: Practical Neural Zen”, p.12, MIT Press
“I'd like to take some calculus, too. I have absolutely no ability in that direction and not much interest, either, but there's something going on in mathematics that I don't understand, and I'd like to find out what it is.”

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