"Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die."

-- Janet Morris

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“Fancy has an extensive influence in morals. Some of the most powerful and dangerous feelings in nature, as those of ambition and envy, derive their principal nourishment from a cause apparently so trivial. Its effect on the common affairs of life is greater than might be supposed. Naked reality would scarcely keep the world in motion.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.253
“It is the prerogative of wizards to be grumpy. It is not, however, the prerogative of freelance consultants who are late on their rent, so instead of saying something smart, I told the woman on the phone, "Yes, ma'am. How can I help you today?”
“At twenty your choices are almost unlimited. At fifty you're a prisoner of past decisions. At seventy you have no free will left at all.”
“The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.”
“I follow, always, because its the only time when our hearts beat in perfect harmony, the only time when Im certain, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that we are one person broken in two.”
“I think that certainly the artists of the '40s, '50s and '60s were fighting a very conformist society, which didn't give them enough space to live or create, and they were bucking all kinds of spoken and unspoken rules.”
“Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.”

Source : William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, Eli Zaretsky (1996). “The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History”, p.132, University of Illinois Press

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