"My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely."

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Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.50, Pan Macmillan

Malcolm Bradbury

#Discovery Quotes #Interesting Quotes #World Quotes

“Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.”

Source : Speech to Married Women's Association, House of Commons, 14 July 1960, in The Times 15 July 1960
“You know what getting married is? It's agreeing to taking this person who right now is at the top of his form, full of hopes and ideas, feeling good, looking good, wildly interested in you because you're the same way, and sticking by him while he slowly disintegrates. And he does the same for you. You're his responsibility now and he's yours. If no one else will take care of him, you will. If everyone else rejects you, he won't. What do you think love is? Going to bed all the time?”
“I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.31, Head of Zeus
“Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.”
“Living in the present moment creates the experience of eternity.”
“What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."”

Source : "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.
“Among the wealthy, compassionate men claim the richest wealth, For material wealth is possessed by even contemptible men. Find and follow the good path and be ruled by compassion. For if the various ways are examined, compassion will prove the means to liberation.”
“I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.”

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