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“It may be said without exaggeration that the mountains made the men; and the men in return fought with passionate courage and energy in defence of their beloved mountains, in whose fastnesses, indeed, they were well-nigh unconquerable.”

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“Hospitality, as with all the mountain tribes, was - and is still - a most sacred duty; and the man who would slay a chance-met traveller without pity or remorse for the sake of trifling gain, would lay down his life for the very same individual were he to cross his threshold as even an unbidden guest.”

War History Conflict Russia Caucasus

Author:John F. Baddeley

“...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.”

War History Conflict Russia Conquest Caucasus

Author:John F. Baddeley

“Об Азию расшиблись все попытки улучшения и образования; она решительно принадлежит не времени, а месту.”

Colonialism Caucasus The White Man S Burden

Book:Аммалат-бек

Source: Аммалат-бек

“Sunny, I can't believe you and Cole got married before me and Travis." "Travis married us in the Motel 6 parking lot last night, remember? You were my maid of honor and everything." "Goddamn, I'm never drinking PBR again," she says and makes a fake retching sound.”

Married Pabst Blue Ribbon

Book:Stay Until We Break

Source: Stay Until We Break

“Any place with year-round Christmas lights is a place I want to be. I usually see them in dive bars, strung along cheap sheet paneling where they cast their twinkly glow on the tap handle of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, where Pabst is drank for what it is instead of ironically, like in some other bars.”

Pabst Blue Ribbon

Book:Gone to Dust

Source: Gone to Dust

“We were the untamed young bucks, testosterone and beer fueling our charge, fear alone left in the wake. Everybody thought we were a little dangerous, and that was cool.”

Alpha Beer Quote

Book:Alpha

Source: Alpha

“If you can make it down to the pub, the pub will make it up to you.”

Humour Beer Author Quotes Famous Quotes Beer Quote English Pubs Pubs Great Britain

Book:Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2

Source: Philosophical Uplifting Quotes volume 2

“It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. [Recalling in 1936 the discovery of the nucleus in 1909, when some alpha particles were observed instead of travelling through a very thin gold foil were seen to rebound backward, as if striking something much more massive than the particles themselves. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this discovery.]”

Science Discovery Physics Atoms Nobel Prize Nobel Laureate Incredible Nuclear Physics Atomic Science

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“So wie ein Mensch, dessen Haare in Flammen stehen, augenblicklich in den nächstbesten Teich springen wird, um die Flammen zu löschen, so beeilt sich ein qualifizierter Schüler, der von den täuschenden Flammen der Dualität verbrannt wurde (samsara), einem kompetenten Lehrer zu dienen, der, weil er sein angeborenes, ewig freies Selbst entdeckt hat, in ungestörter Gelassenheit ruht. (Vedanta-sara 1.30)”

Vedanta Moksha Erleuchtung Nondualität Naradas Bhakti Sutra

Book:Yoga der Liebe: Naradas Bhakti Sutra aus der Perspektive des Vedanta

Source: Yoga der Liebe: Naradas Bhakti Sutra aus der Perspektive des Vedanta

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