"The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep pigs and fowl, and do not sell live cattle; in the markets there are no butcher shops and no dealers in intoxicating drink... Only the Chandalas (lowest cast) are fisherman and hunters and sell flesh meat."

-- Faxian

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“I hated the reflection in the mirror. I wanted so much to be someone else... I thought that if I was thinner, the rest of my life would change.”
“Find that person that inspires you.”
“Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.”
“Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because they're held here so lightly: they haven't yet accumulated loves and responsibilities and commitments and all the things that tie us securely to this world. They can let go of it as easily and simply as lifting a finger. But as you get older, you begin to find things that are worth holding onto, forever.”
“Being a poet in the States is quite different from being one in China, because in the States poetry depends on the universities for its support. They finance the poets and help them get published. That isn't so in China. But overall it is the same. You can't change society with poetry.”

Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu
“In view of the epidemiological situation in Germany, the lack of evidence for the effectiveness of the BCG-vaccine and the not uncommen severe, undesired side-effects of the BCG vaccine, the STIKO can no longer support the recommendation for this vaccination.”
“I usually wait until I get on the bus, when I'm done with media and I get to sit down and listen to my music and just read through everyone's messages.”

Source : "Talking to Our NFL Rookie of the Year Pick Eddie Lacy About Twitter and Getting Hit Very Hard". Interview with Esquire, www.esquire.com. January 27, 2014.
“Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes, and the second law of thermodynamics.”

Source : Nature 430, 971, August 26, 2004.

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