"Shut the door, Wales."

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Source : To the Prince of Wales (attributed)

Beau Brummell

#Funny Quotes #Humor Quotes #Doors Quotes

“Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.”
“I could say that in the essay, as it has developed historically, success is determined by the writer's ability to express, through an individual voice, a collective experience - you are speaking individually but you are representing collectively.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.”
“It is the mind itself which builds the body.”
“We're the only creature God ever created that doesn't want to adapt. We want to make it stand still. And one thing that's constant is nature is constantly changing.”
“Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce. Here the enemy meets democracy's strongest element-the ability to realize and satisfy the needs of its people without taking from them their freedom and dignity as human beings.”
“This is what a city is, bits and pieces that supplement each other and support each other.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage
“To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail.”

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