Notable Quotes

 

IN may villages, women now form the majority during court meetings. – Dutch researcher Dr Janine Ubink after a five-month study of customary legal empowerment in the Uukwambi Traditional Authority in the North

THEY said I am like a buffalo – big and stupid and slow in moving. – Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono who has banned the animals from street protests

WITH the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory. – Stephen Corry, director of Survival International, an organisation that supports tribes worldwide after the last person to speak one of the world’s oldest dialects died on a remote Indian island

PRIDE makes us artificial and humility makes us real. – Thomas Merton (1915 1968), American Trappist monk

EVERY woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything – Paris Hilton (born 1981), American model, actress, entrepreneur and socialite

From the history books
IN philosophy, if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace, you aren’t moving at all. – Quote from ‘Acastos: Two Platonic Dialogues’, by Iris Murdoch. On February 8 1999, Murdoch, one of the great British novelists of the 20th century whose books included ‘The Sea, The Sea’ and ‘An Accidental Man’, died aged 79

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