"After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come."

-- Alain de Botton

#Men Quotes #Age Quotes #Strive Quotes

“Speaking as a Muslim in the West, I see a crisis in religious authority, we need Indigenous Muslim scholarship understanding the Western way of life and is able to use the understanding, using legitimate Islamic sources to bring more scholarship to our way of life in the west. There's a need for that.”
“It has been suggested that an account of my life and fortunes would not be uninteresting to the public,”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Solomon Northup, Olaudah Equiano (2016). “Slave Narratives Compilation: Twelve Years A Slave, My Bondage and My Freedom, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave”, p.330, ShandonPress
“During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.”
“Just like a Led Zeppelin album stands up today, we hope our album stands up in 10 or 20 years.”
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
“Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which their profiles confronted each other, their noses as powerful as their personalities.”
“There is an energy within... pure strength... the energy of the person which is put in different forms, in different shapes... once we discover that energy I think that such a thing as dance becomes such a delight because you're moving on a stream that is you but it is even over and beyond you...”
“Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.”

Source : C.E. Murphy (2006). “Thunderbird Falls”, p.304, LUNA

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