"What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?"

-- Chanakya

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“I probably listen to more instrumental music than music with lyrics, but at the same time I do love both.”

Source : Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com
“Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.”
“All one really requires for putting anything over is enough energy and resistance to keep on plugging the idea. Someone will eventually fall.”
“I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.”
“Natural selection based on the differential multiplication of variant types cannot exist before there is material capable of replicating itself and its own variations, that is, before the origination of specifically genetic material or gene-material.”
“Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.”
“Each day, we wake slightly altered, and the person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time?”

Source : John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.221, Random House
“It is not speech or tool making that distinguishes us from other animals, it is imagination....Of what use are speech sounds and tools without an inspiration toward perfectibility, without a sense that we can create or construct a history.”

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