"For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter."

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Source : Marie de France (2015). “Medieval Lays and Legends of Marie de France”, p.125, Xist Publishing

Marie de France

#Loyalty Quotes #Mean Quotes #Matter Quotes

“The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.”
“Our budget also reflects key components of our campaign. It's very much focused on stabilizing public services, restoring stability to public services and investing in job creation and economic diversification and, generally speaking, acting as a cushion during this economy, something fundamentally different than what the other parties proposed in the last election.”
“The leader...is rarely the brightest person in the group. Rather they have extraordinary taste, which makes them more curators than creators. They are appreciators of talent and nurturers of talent and they have the ability to recognize valuable ideas.”
“One trouble is that when Government gets into a business it tends to make it uneconomic for anyone else.”

Source : Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 47), February 27, 1963.
“Invincible is just a word”
“Men, also, have in them enormous capacities that they have to repress and fear in themselves, living up to this obsolete and brutal man-eating, bear-killing, Ernest Hemingway, crewcut Prussian sadistic, napalm all the children in Vietnam, bang-bang you're dead, image of masculinity, the image of all powerful masculine superiority that is absolute.”
“If you live in New York, even if you're Catholic, you're Jewish”
“I didn't hang any pictures in my office for a year because I thought that I would be jinxing myself and have to take them down the next day.”

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