"They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed."

-- Arthur C. Clarke

#Omnipotence Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“Even if the world ends, the music will still survive.”

Source : "Great Muslims of undivided India" by Nikhat Ekbal, Gyan Publishing House, (p. 45), 2009.
“It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1998). “The Gate of Angels”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Science is not a sacred cow-but there are a large number of would-be sacred cowherds busily devoting quantities of time, energy and effort to the task of making it one, so they can be sacred cowherds.”
“So, it's pretty crazy. Look, we're bailing out Wall Street, we're bailing out banks, we're bailing out car companies. In fact, did you know there's a special box on your tax form this year you can check if you want a portion of your taxes to actually go to running the government?”
“You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.”
“If you don't value your time, neither will others.”
“Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.”

Source : René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)
“Passion begins where your bodies unite and ends where your souls dance. When your spirits can join together at the same time as your bodies become one, then all of you will be making love. There will be nothing left between you that is not love. This is sacred communion. This is ecstasy.”

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