Sulaiman Al Qanuni Quotes & Sayings

A book is tremendously important. Nobody ever paid for the price of a book, they only paid for the printing — Louis I. Kahn

In order to be wise, we cannot expect yesterday's wise decision to relieve us from the necessity and responsibility to make wise decisions today. — Marshall Lenne

We all get swept up in the hype machine. Nobody is immune to that. — Steven Cojocaru

I also was persuaded that the woman most in need of liberation was the woman in every man just as the man most in need of liberation was the man in every woman. — William Sloane Coffin

They walked gingerly across the junk-filled vacant lots to the local abattoir - a place of infinite fascination, with its strange sights and stranger smells.
It was a thrill - because it outraged their every sense of animal love - to watch the killings. To see calm, innocent cattle led one by one into that room with the fetid smells and the stained, concrete floor always a'swish with running water. To see brawny, heavy-set Gus Milner and his equally big son, Charley, slip the snubbing rope through the ring in the cow's nose, and relentlessly draw its head down and down until its nose touched the heavy ring set in the floor, then fasten it.
Their hearts did strange nip-ups just back of their mouths as one of the men would pick up the heavy sledge, and with one great, perfectly aimed blow, strike the animal just between and a bit above the eyes. They always jumped at the sudden slump as the carcass dropped, spraddled and lifeless, to the floor.
("The Shed") — E. Everett Evans

We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. — Isaac Asimov

Attaching "produced at Berkeley, Harvard, MIT" to a ridiculous argument immediately makes it cogent to many. That's part of life, but let's not pretend that it's rationality. — Douglas Wilson