"A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them."

-- Honore de Balzac

#Family Quotes #Country Quotes #Strong Quotes

“But what I want most of all is a normal life.”
“I believe in women. I desire . . . to do those things that would advance women in moral and spiritual, as well as educational work.”
“We also have a tendency to root for the fugitive. We're always on the side of the animal being chased.”
“Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.”

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“Teachers literally break down at the thought that if their students have a bad a test day, their job is on the line.”
“Sabi nila, 'When you know what you deserve, you don't look back.'”
“Sean Connery wasn't the Scottish James Bond and Daniel Craig wasn't the blue-eyed James Bond. So if I played him, I don't want to be called the black James Bond.”
“The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.”

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