"Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources."

-- Thomas B. Macaulay

#Country Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fate Quotes

“Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.”
“A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.”
“I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations”
“A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.”
“Deeply affecting and compulsively readable, The Fifty-First State displays Lisa Borders' emotional acuity, first-rate skills as a storyteller, and profound empathy not only for her two compelling main characters but for an oft-neglected region and a disappearing way of life.”
“I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.”
“Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.”
“I would never talk to a girl in a bar, like a pick-up thing. But I could talk to anyone if they wore a t-shirt of a band I like.”

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