"It’s almost always sadder to stay than to depart"

-- Miguel Sousa Tavares

“When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way of the relationship. Then, magically, these negotiations take the place of the relationship.”
“The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education.”

Source : "What Is Money?". "Frédéric Bastiat, Essays on Political Economy", translated by David A. Wells, bastiat.org. 1877.
“Only force rules. Force is the first law”
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.”

Source : "Strictly Personal" by W. Somerset Maugham, (ch. 31), 1941.
“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
“Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.”
“There's no moral issue for me. I did the best science I could. I was struggling to survive and didn't have the luxury of being a moral creature.”
“Lena Smoothed her hair. "Crazy weather you have down here.”

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