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And if tradition was lost, then the loss of respect for those who respected and loved tradition always followed.
“One can think of street food as a moving map of a city’s culture. It translates culture into the language of the tongue on a continuous basis. As a city collects its inhabitants from a wide range of migrants, street food gradually alters its character to reflect the tastes of its residents. It is a testament of both the city as it was and as it is becoming.”
― Mother Pious Lady: Making Sense Of Everyday India
― Mother Pious Lady: Making Sense Of Everyday India
“But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand. And for keeping alive in me somehow the desire to know.”
― The Color Purple
― The Color Purple
“The main concept is that the mind and the body are separate, although interconnected entities. And while the body lasts for just one life, the mind, or stream of consciousness, is continuous; it is beginningless and endless.”
― His Holiness The Dalai Lama: A Message of Spiritual Wisdom
― His Holiness The Dalai Lama: A Message of Spiritual Wisdom
“All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true story teller who would keep you from that.” —Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon”
― Ernest Hemingway: A Life From Beginning to End
― Ernest Hemingway: A Life From Beginning to End
“In the quiet back streets of Lérida and Barbastro I seemed to catch a momentary glimpse, a sort of far-off rumour of the Spain that dwells in everyone's imagination. White sierras, goatherds, dungeons of the Inquisition, Moorish palaces, black winding trains of mules, grey olive trees and groves of lemons, girls in black mantillas, the wines of Málaga and Alicante, cathedrals, cardinals, bull-fights, gypsies, serenades—in short, Spain.”
― Homage to Catalonia
― Homage to Catalonia
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