"You're either on the bus or off the bus."

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Source : Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.97, Macmillan

Tom Wolfe

#Hippie Quotes #Bus Quotes

“What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I am like a man yawning at a ball; the only reason he does not go home to bed is that his carriage has not arrived yet.”
“Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time the fear will be put to shame and a modest 10 percent frail awareness of the possibility of love. I don't fall in love any more. Just like I don't get the mumps.”
“I suspect that these traits-desire, commitment, and good work habits-are important in all facets of our lives. . .”
“I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.”

Source : Letitia Elizabeth Landon (2003). “Poems from the Literary Gazette”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint
“This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation.”
“In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.”

Source : N. R. Narayana Murthy (2009). “A Better India, a Better World”, p.8, Penguin Books India
“Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning star in the angle of the seventh house, in quartile with Mars, but they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of observations everything which has now been brought by me into the brightest daylight would lie buried in darkness.”
“All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.”

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