Who gave birth to Pakistan? Who broke our country into pieces in 1947? If Sardar Patel, instead of Nehru, was our PM then neither would we have have lost the war with China nor would have Pakistan taken half of Kashmir away nor would our brave soldiers have lost their lives because of terrorism.

[http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~pringle/silent/chaplin/aaronhale.html Brief bio]

Bitch, I ain't no fucking G, I'm a cannibal!
I ain't trying to shoot you, I'm trying to chop you into pieces and eat you!

Chưa đỗ ông nghè đã đe hàng tổng.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man.

This time, any attempt to present Hinduism and Indian culture by creating sculptures in the name of the New Year's procession of fine arts will be discouraged.

Elisabeth Sladen - Sarah Jane Smith

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

In the locus of emptiness, beyond the human standpoint, a world of "dependent origination" is opened up in which everything is related to everything else. Seen in this light, there is nothing in the world that arises from "self-power" and yet all "self-powered" workings arise from the world.

Everyone should prepare NOW for this change, for I promise you that it will come, and only those who are ready will survive.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won't let my spirit be destroyed.

Be immeasurably great, be unfathomably deep; make certain that names and results tally, examine laws and customs, punish those who act willfully, and the state will be without traitors.

The usual devastating put-downs imply that a person is basically bad, rather than that he is a person who sometimes does bad things. Obviously, there is a vast difference between a "bad" person and a person who does something bad.
Besides, failure is an event, it is not a person — yesterday ended last night.

Hakai Shin Korin [Destruction Deity Descent]

Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.

[http://www.poesia-inter.net/indexpn.htm Original poems] - It includes some translations and audio files. All poems are sourced

[https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/1.4968119 Gideon Levy's articles at Haaretz].

When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that is barely discernible. One’s fingertips must grasp the key, gently warming it. And then the key must be turned once, not twice.

[M]ost of us, male and female, are as children compared with this one glorious human being.

Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.

In a jungle town
Where the sun beats down
To the rage of man and beast,
The English garb
Of the English sahib
Merely gets a bit more creased.
In Bangkok
At twelve'o'clock
They foam at the mouth and run,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.

The most of my sufferings and sorrows were occasioned by my own unwillingness to be nothing, which I am, and by struggling to be something.

In the long run, Ram Swarup will probably prove to have been the most influential Hindu thinker in the second half of the 20th century. He has, at any rate, been a crucial influence on most other Hindu Revivalist authors of the last two decades.

Australia ran a certification and training program for building a workforce that also certified the installers as inspectors. This made the process of purchasing and installing solar in Australia simple and doable in a matter of days.

Those men are good who study the good of others without regarding themselves. Those men are ordinary men who, while they benefit others, do not neglect their own interests. Those men are demons who destroy another's good for their own profit. What shall we call those who aimlessly destroy that which is another's?

Intelligence doesn't threaten me. Stupidity does.

The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.

The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.

Singapore Malay National Organization

Kishori Shahane – Indira Gandhi

Audrey was meek, gentle and ethereal, understated both in her life and in her work. She walked among us with a light pace, as if she didn't want to be noticed. [I regret losing her] as a friend, as a role model, and as a companion to my youthful dreams.

Eitaro Ozawa — Kinami, Minister of Justice

Far away in the thirties and forties she (the girl you want to be) is waiting her turn. Her body, brain, her soul are in your girlish hands. She cannot help herself. What will you leave for her? … Will you throw away her inheritance?

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child’s world and thus a world event.

Dể được, dể mất

Laura Crossley - Martha Sowerby

[http://nusratonline.com/blog/articles/quotes-from-nusrat/ Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan Quotes] at nusratonline.com

The Webbs are really gone! When I saw the waggons at the door, and thought of all the trouble they must have in moving, I began to reproach myself for not having liked them better, but since the waggons have disappeared my conscience has been closed again, and I am excessively glad they are gone.