"Our girls have need of such an example of graciousness, elegance, refinement, and spirituality."

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Maria Young Dougall

#Girl Quotes #Example Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I was inspired by Colin Farrell in the fact that he's Irish and has freckles but with black hair. I'm a bunch of different things, Irish, Polish, Native American, and French, but I wanted to tap into that Irish side and be freckle-y with black hair, so that's what I did.”
“Who will win the League? It's a toss of a coin between three of them.”
“We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.”
“Jeanne Moreau, Lauren Bacall, they had this unconventional beauty, this amazing charisma.”
“Some of the colonizers do understand and quickly retreat, while some, because they are stupid, continue colonizing others, increasing the suffering, deaths, injuries, defeat and humiliation. The people colonized by Abyssinia will be free. Eritrea will be free, and they cannot refuse to let them be free. Western Somalia will be free, and they cannot refuse to grant it freedom. The numerous Abo will be free because this is history, and no one can prevent the sunshine from reaching us.”
“The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.”
“The Whig interpretation of history ... is the tendency in many historians to write on the side of Protestants and Whigs, to praise revolutions provided they have been successful, to emphasise certain principles of progress in the past and to produce a story which is the ratification if not the glorification of the present.”

Source : Herbert Butterfield (1931). “The Whig interpretation of history”
“Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones.”

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