"God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism."

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Source : Manil Suri (2014). “The City of Devi”, p.162, A&C Black

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“Although one may fail to find happiness in theatrical life, one never wishes to give it up after having once tasted its fruits.”

Source : Quoted in A H Franks (ed) Pavlova: A Biography,'Pages of My Life' (1956).
“Unsuccessful people get jealous when they watch the Mastery of others. Successful people get inspired.”
“Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality.”
“Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.”
“Beer commercials are so patriotic: Made the American Way. What does that have to do with America? Is that what America stands for? Feeling sluggish and urinating frequently?”
“To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is an indispensable characteristic. It would be going too far to say that to the physicist the cat is merely incidental to the grin. Physics is concerned with interrelatedness such as the interrelatedness of cats and grins. In this case the "cat without a grin" and the "grin without a cat" are equally set aside as purely mathematical phantasies.”
“A hero is someone right who doesn't change.”
“To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.”

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