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Given Quotes by Salman Rushdie
- The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the…
- England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.
- The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously,…
- I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of…
- But love is what we want, not freedom. Who then is the unluckier man? The beloved, who is given his heart's desire and must for…
- Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the…
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- A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children. — John James Audubon
- Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. — Saint Augustine
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away. — Marcus Aurelius
- The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race. — Sri Aurobindo
- They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life. — Jane Austen
- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing… — Edward Bach
- You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work… — Richard Bach