"If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse."

-- Cory Booker

#Civilization Quotes #Weakness Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I might not come home with hardware, but I'm winning.”
“We do 32 episodes a season and will have shot 267 episodes by the end of the ninth season... It's impossible to sell that many episodes in the foreign market.”
“Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.”

Source : Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Sir John Hawkins (1808). “The complete angler; or, Contemplative man's recreation:: being a discourse on rivers, fish-ponds, fish, and fishing. In two parts:”, p.102
“As with all journeys, the Way has an end, though it should not be imagined as a straight road leading to a fixed destination but rather as a majestic mountain whose peak conceals the presence of God. There are, of course, many paths to the summit-some better than others. But because every path eventually leads to the same destination, which path one takes is irrelevant.”
“Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.”
“Keep talking, someday you'll say something intelligent.”
“Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.”
“To live is often to struggle toward goals one has no desire to reach.”

Source : Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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