"The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words."

-- Salman Rushdie

#Culture Quotes #Determined Quotes

“If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.”

Source : "Feats of memory anyone can do". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2012.
“Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.”
“Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there;Â Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.”

Source : Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63
“The arts are good and providential in that they allow the soul to imitate the movements of love, and to feel love without its being returned - which, perhaps, is the only way of feeling it permanently.”
“The collective shortfall of the 3.08 billion people (47 percent of world population) who, in 2005, lived below $2.50 per day was $507 billion per annum, which indeed comes to about two-thirds of the present US military budget. This gives us a rough sense of how much the eradication of poverty would cost.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.”
“I have built my reputation on honesty, I have sometimes been too honest.”
“Always set goals, and work as hard as you can. You'll be amazed at what you can do.”

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