"A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot..."

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Source : Robert A. Heinlein (1982). “Friday”

Robert A. Heinlein

#Loss Quotes #Dying Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.”
“There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people.”

Source : Thomas Hearne, John Aubrey (1813). “Letters written by eminent persons in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: to which are added, Hearne's journeys to Reading, and to Whaddon Hall, the seat of Browne Willis, esq., and Lives of eminent men, by John Aubrey, esq: The whole now first published from the originals in the Bodleian library and Ashmolean museum, with biographical and literary illustrations ...”, p.202
“The greatest tragedy of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that everyone knows how it will end. We will divide up the region.”
“[When asked if she had ever considered divorcing Sir Lewis Casson:] Divorce? Never. But murder often!”
“Simplicity of life is an essential for greatness of life.”

Source : Janet Erskine Stuart (2012). “The Education of Catholic Girls”, p.51, tredition
“I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.”
“The god you worship is the one you're capable of becoming.”
“And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.”

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