"If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society."

-- Ibrahim Babangida

#Military Quotes #Liberty Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.”
“Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.”
“My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics
“I have this side of me that is a very European flamboyant; I won't say queenie, but it's borderline - could be perceived as homosexual.”

Source : "Skewed and Reviewed Talks with "New Moon" Volturi". sknr.net. November 12, 2009.
“When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.”
“Live tonight, cuz you can't take it with ya.”
“The mind of man can never be wholly barren. Through our whole lives we are subject to successive impressions; for, either new ideas are continually flowing in, or traces of the old ones are marked deeper. If, therefore, you be not acquiring good principles be assured that you are acquiring bad ones; if you be not forming virtuous habits you are, how insensibly soever to yourselves, forming vicious ones...”

Source : Joseph Priestley, Henry Ware (1834). “Views of Christian truth, piety, and morality: selected from the writings of Dr. Priestley : with a memoir of his life”, p.171
“If you liked school, you're gonnnnna lovvvvve work!”

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