"Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all around; it was Manlius who lived in a dream world, and his bubble of civility was becoming smaller and smaller. Caius Valerius, powerful member of a powerful family, had never even heard of Plato. A hundred, even fifty years before, such an absurdity would have been inconceivable. Now it was surprising if such a man did know anything of philosophy, and even if it was explained, he would not wish to understand."

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Source : Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.18, Penguin

Iain Pears

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“The thing I miss about performing is being with people.”
“The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.”

Source : "The cure is working" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2009.
“All over the country, they're reading about me, and the story doesn't center on me being gay. It's just about a gay person who is doing his job.”
“All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.”
“First deal with your own tears; tomorrow do something about acid rain.”

Source : 1986 Successfully Single.
“Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?”
“I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.”
“Unless you are a part of someone's life every day or even just with them most of the time, you will never really know what they have and had, what happened with them and how they really are, what they do, why they do it that way and what they feel.”

Source : Sister Souljah (2014). “A Deeper Love Inside: The Porsche Santiaga Story”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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